A Parenting Secret Weapon: The 30-Minute-Per-Day Rule

Quality time spent together shapes a child more than any material investment ever could.
A Parenting Secret Weapon: The 30-Minute-Per-Day Rule
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What’s the world’s most valuable resource?

It’s not cash or gold or silver. It’s not real estate. It’s not even books (speaking as a bibliophile, here). It’s time. Time is our most valuable resource because it’s the most limited. Once lost, it’s lost forever. There’s always more money to be made or more houses to be invested in, but our time is finite, and it runs out quickly. Furthermore, it’s the resource by which we acquire all other resources, which makes it the most powerful one of all. Without time, we can’t experience or enjoy anything else in life. Time is the very medium of life itself.

Walker Larson
Walker Larson
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Before becoming a freelance journalist and culture writer, Walker Larson taught literature and history at a private academy in Wisconsin, where he resides with his wife and daughter. He holds a master’s in English literature and language, and his writing has appeared in The Hemingway Review, Intellectual Takeout, and his Substack, The Hazelnut. He is also the author of two novels, “Hologram” and “Song of Spheres.”