ARE YOU AN ABSENTEE PAPA? READ THIS!

Many fathers are guilty of this. I am talking about being absent almost all the time. Yes we have a career to pursue and yes we have to work and earn a living and in turn fulfil our primary role of 'provider to our families. Money certainly does not grow on trees and all that. I know all about it. The good old excuse we often peddle to excuse our absenteeism from being what we aught to be fathers.
This is a difficult topic to discuss because, let's face it, we are all guilty of this in varying degrees. Many of us are so busy, so busy that we hardly see our kids grow before our eyes. Some of us have perfected the art of being the first to leave for work sometimes even before the kids are up from bed and the last to come back home, way past the kids bedtime.
We are reliable and effective everywhere else but our homes. We are time conscious and will rather loose an arm than fail to attend that board room meeting or worse still arrive late. Yet we create a thousand and one reasons why we can't make it to the kids PTA. Isn't that sad?
We do all in our power to court the friendship of that all important client with a big bank account, we make our selves conspicuous at the clients Polo tournament. Attend his social functions, donate at that fund raiser. Sit through obviously boring functions and applaud for no sane reason. Unfortunately the kids birthday Comes up and we have to be reminded or else...
No wonder, we are loosing relevance in the eyes of the ones we claim to love so much, our family. I wonder how many kids will still point to us if they are asked to say who their hero is. Dysfunctional homes abound because we seem to have our priorities upside down.
If you are reading this and your family is still coping with this kind of crap from you, then this should be a wake up call to you dear papa. The solution is not far fetched, creat a balance. After all the people you are working your butt off for deserve your presence too. Learn to delegate responsibility you have to so that you can spend some quality time with the family.
When last did you take the family on a vacation? Yes things may be hard but you can save and plan towards it and when you do just that, you will see how beneficial it is to you first and the good old family. Papas let's check our selves before we wreck our selves.