Time management life lesson

big rocks so i'm in the middle of moving last night and my son really wanted to help but I explained to him that i really needed to put the big stuff in the storage unit first, stuff that was too big for him to help with but then soon, i'd get a lot of his help. i was very busy and in a hurry and it was getting dark, then I remembered this, so I sat down and told him this story and when i was done I explained how if i put a table in the storage unit then the little boxes he could lift could fit under and over it but if we did those first the table would never get in. then, I said, and for the next 10 or so years my biggest thing is to teach YOU things that will make your life better so since that is my biggest thing I put down this little move stuff for a few min to make sure that got in first, because if I waited then it might be too late and i'd forget and I'd never get around to it. so then he said, did your dad teach you stuff? not a lot I said, but I learned a lot from watching him, what worked and what didn't work, one of the things I learned was that if you don't put spending time with your kid first, it will never get in. and that, felt like a nice solid patch on that booboo (he died when i was 21), like its this tapestry we keep working on, we learn how to make strong thread and layer after layer we see the holes left by the best attempts of those before us and every generation, with luck, the fabric gets stronger. try to remember that the next time your boss bitches that you didn't answer your cell phone in the middle of a parent teacher conference, he's the water the kid is the stone, put the stone in first.