I do believe that our time together made a difference. By getting to know our children, we were able to tell when there was something bothering them. We better understood the way they thought and their feelings. We still made mistakes, but spending time helped. Another thing that happened was that we were able to better teach our values to our children.
Examples teach so much more than words.
This is not something new. The wisdom of teaching our children as we share life experiences with them came form God. Recent events in our country should teach parents to pay attention to and spend time with their children. They see on the TV and read in the papers about children killing other children and doing other kinds of terrible things. While I realize that the good kids get very little press, the point I'm trying to make is that there are problems, and at least part of the problem is that some parents are too busy to even know what their children are doing.