There is a view that parents of younger children need to spend more quantity time with their children than quality time as the latter ensures children’s’ graceful growth. However, opinions differ when it comes to spending more quantity time in today’s living conditions.

How do you approach these two opinions?

Smart parenting is a sensitive issue. Naturally, opinions differ on whether it is more quantity time or quality time that would benefit children more. Though more quantity time is better, what is happening around us is the other way round. In my opinion, it is unfortunate.

Looking at the view that it is better to spend more quantity time with children, I find that children grow more gracefully when they get more time with their parents. After all, it is their parents who are their primary teachers. Their way of life, character, manners, language, likes and dislikes are what constitute the basic lessons of a growing child. Obviously, the more quantity time they spend with their children, the better. On the other hand, more quality time makes parenting a pressure for children. Pressure and pleasure do not match.

Unfortunately though, today, not many parents have the fortune of sparing more quantity time with their children, and a little times they get is being made quality times by way of imposing academics and fostering performance. This is primarily due to the pressures of modern life. It acts in two ways. Firstly, parents are forced to make more money to better their children’s life. Secondly, children are pressured to perform much early in their life so as to be successful in the long run. It gives more pressures to children than pleasures of growing gracefully.

Concluding it, I find it right to say that smart parenting is more a matter of quantity parenting time than anything else. The sinless pleasures of growth are not only for the growing ones but also for parents who, in turn, grow gracefully into much smarter parents.

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