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Children remember the dinner table
Connection Regret·All ages
He missed his daughter's school field day three years in a row — there were always approvals waiting. In six years of elementary school she never remembered him being there. In middle school, a counselor suggested talking with her father more. She said, "He was always at the office." The second regret written down by a hospice nurse who sat with thousands of the dying was: I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
I wish I didn't work so hard… They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship.
— Bronnie Ware, Australian hospice nurse (reflective record)
TODAY’S PRACTICE
Once this week, leave the phone in another room and sit at the table.
#DinnerTable#BePresent#WorkLess
SOURCE
Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
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