As I have already written in the posts A Philosopher As Parent (Part 1) – Stefan Molyneux and A Philosopher As Parent (Part 2) – Ten Commandments to Parenting Wisely being a parent is a tremendous challenge because of the demands of  needing to be there for our children and also being wise in how we choose to guide their first precarious steps in life.

So I share with you (especially parents) a pertinent BBC article which suggests, perhaps rightly, that we should spend more time with our children rather than just buying them material goods (mostly purchased through guilt of not being with them enough to begin with).

I agree, because not only does it teach the children the wrong values about who they are (they will end up treating the goods as being more important than themselves), it can also inadvertently produce a bunch of spoilt, materialistic brats who will probably end up respecting designer labels more than the parents.

However, one cannot blame the parents entirely for this sad state of affairs.  We need to look, as a whole, at the society in which we live.  I think in most households, parents would love nothing more than to spend quality time with their kids, as I’m sure they know it would produce a more positive and healthy effect on both the child’s general well-being, and growth of both mind and spirit.

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This is a continuation of the “How to Manage your Time doing the Important Things you Love” and the last in the series. The first post in the series can be found here.

What does it mean to live consciously?

Living consciously does not only mean one having awareness of oneself and their surroundings, but it can also include being aware of the shortness of time and how one should make good use of it when they still can.

All this talk about the shortness of life provokes memories of a wise Roman Emperor who wrote down a particular meditation, or call it a piece of positive psychology, that perfectly described my thoughts on being conscious of the apparent dwindling thing called time…

“Live each day as if it were your last”

~ Marcus Aurelius, ‘Meditations’

The emperor’s words should prompt you towards managing your time for you to do the important things that will eventually benefit you and others in your life.

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Bob Marley was not the only Reggae Artist to be Wise

Legendary Reggae star John Holt once sang, the hugely successful hit “Time Is The Master”, and he was of course right…well, as far as the title he was.

Finding time to blog is getting harder by the day…baby J is growing by the day…and will soon be wanting me to take him to the park for football practice every evening…and that’s after coming home from work.

Time is the master indeed, and what governs our daily activities whether we like it or not…

“We can never turn back the pages of time, though we may wish to relive a happy moment, or say good-bye just one last time, we never can, because the sands of time continue to fall, and we can’t turn the hourglass over.”

~ Anonymous

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