Quality time with children

Iwas listening to an educational matters program last week. The program was organise to help parents in enhancing the educational achievement of children. parenting is one big task now a days. The school can only play a part in children education, the parents play a major part as children spend more time at home than in the school. sadly parents hardly spend enough time with children let alone know the progress and problems children are facing in their schools. only few parents visit their kid's school.

I was moved by the plead of a daughter to her father in the program. One school administrator narrated an incident between a young girl and her father. this young girl wish to spend more time with her dad, but unfortunately, the dad is always busy at work. The Dad comes home exhausted and some times the kid's are already in bed. the daughter always wish to discuss her school work with her father but as usual the Dad don't have the time.
One day, the daughter waited for her father to come from work. the little girl call her father into her room. She ask her dad about his hourly pay rate. the father became angry, he angry told her daughter to mind her business. He went into his room but realises his mistake and went back to his daughter and apologises. He told her his hourly pay, which is £20 (twenty pounds).
The daughter again went on asking her father to give her £10 (ten pounds). Again the dad was upset at her daughter's request for money. He went off, but then return back to apologise to his daughter for the second time. He handed the £10 to his daughter.

This is where the story became sad. The little girl was all along trying to find out how much her father is paid so that she can pay her father an hour wage rate for the father to spend time with her.
the little girl already has £10 and she needed another £10 to complete her father's £20 an hour wages. she handed her father twenty pounds and requested that he spend one hour with her.

if you didn't get the full story, well tough. the little girl was trying to spend an hour quality time with her father who is always busy and tired. she paid her dad £20 so that he can be motivated to spend time with her.
now, this is sad. please guys sometimes our children prefer to spend with us than their mothers whom they stay with most of the time. let us not be spending dads only, money dads. our time and opinion is important to the kid's. we should also hasten to listen to what the children have to say, this booust their confidence and manners.
food for thought.