你聽過家長們這樣說到他們的孩子們: 
我沒能給太多的時間﹐但我給的是優質時間...

Quality And Quantity?  
by Steve Arterburn 

These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you lie down and when you get up. Deuteronomy 6:6-7

6 我今日所吩咐你的話都要記在心上， 7 也要殷勤教訓你的兒女。無論你坐在家裡，行在路上，躺下，起來，都要談論。申命記 6: 6-7

You’ve heard parents say this about their kids: “I don’t have much time to give, but what I do give is quality time!” I don’t know what that means, and I bet your children don’t either. Even if they did, I don’t think you really build relationships on “quality time”.

你聽過家長們這樣說到他們的孩子們: 我沒能給太多的時間﹐但我給的是優質

時間! 我不懂那是什麼意思﹐而且我肯定你的小孩也不懂。甚至如果他們懂得﹐ 我不認為你真正從優質時段建立情感關係。

How can you predict the quality of “quality time?” And what constitutes the distinction, anyway?

你如何預測優質時間的品質呢? 而且到底什麼構成這種區分?

My point is that life just doesn’t work that way. For instance, suppose you bought tickets to a local minor league ballgame for you and your son. You planned some real quality time to teach your son about the game you loved, and hopefully instill the same passion in him. But in the first inning he spots a friend, and they disappear together for the rest of the game. So much for quality time!

我的論點是生活不是這種方式運轉的。比如﹐假定你為你自己和你兒子買了當地少年球隊的門票。你計劃一些真正的優質時間來教你兒子有關你所愛的球賽﹐和期望對他灌輸同樣的熱情。但在第一局時他看到了一位朋友﹐然後他們倆從剩下的整場球賽中突然離開消失了。真是優質時間啊!

Then suppose in the same week, while heading to the grocery store, you bring your daughter along. No chance of quality time here, right? But among mundane chores and small talk, your daughter asks, “Daddy, what does salvation mean?” Your last minute errand just turned into quality time.

然後假定 在同一週﹐ 正當前往雜貨店﹐ 你帶著女兒。這兒毫無機會有優質時間, 對吧? 但就在日常例行雜務和閒聊當中﹐你的女兒問起﹐ “爹的﹐救恩是什麼意思?” 你的最後臨時跑腿差事變成了優質時間。

Quality time can’t be manipulated. It doesn’t happen at our beck and call. Instead, quality time sneaks up on us amidst quantity time. Consequently, the only way we can ensure quality time is to make sure there’s quantity time—and plenty of it.

優質時間是無法被操縱的﹐ 它不是我們招手來就會發生的﹐必定, 優質時間是在份量的時間之中偷偷地溜進來。因此﹐我們唯一可確保有優質時間是確定有分量的時間---而且是大量豐富的時間。

“If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.” - Leopold Fechtner ( Author of  A  Crazy Dictionary , ISBN: 9781581410297

Publisher: Rivercross Pub )

如果你納悶你孩子的直排輪鞋扔在哪兒了, 試著在黑暗中的屋子裡面走一走.

 
View this New Life devotion at Newlife.com

Translation copyright © 2007 Priscilla Wey