Getting back in the saddle with blogging is a lot like spending time with your children. The time spent is rewarding. The time spent is hard fought to come by. The time spent is all too fleeting. You are often left with the sense of a question - Was the time spent productive, enlightening, valuable or any other quantitative label you want to place on the experience.
Parents often feel a sense of disconnect with whether the time they spend with their children is actually impacting the child's life in a positive way. Children have a way of acting nonchalant or even antagonistic toward a parental effort to teach.
Fathers should slip into time with their children on the child's terms. Meet your son or daughter where he or she wants to be met. If this time is spent playing in a sandbox, so be it. There is far too much emphasis placed on "teaching" these days and not nearly enough on "connecting".
I've found the same has been true of my blogging efforts. I've been too involved in "doing" things and not involved enough in posting. I am more committed to spending connective time with my children, and as this post testifies, I'm back on the blog trail again.
