[Maritime Q-Scout]

I can empathize with finding the time.

I go to all my son's school activities (concerts/plays/events) as well as birthday parties. I also sit on the school's advisory counsel which is basically one meeting a month. However, I'm lucky that I'm somewhat flexible with work, and my wife and I both kind of roll with the scheduling punches.

With regard to the "I don't have time to read to my kids" (noting this isn't the busy single parent not having time to attend field trips), I'd say it doesn't take much. For us, reading a story is part of the bedtime routine. PJ's, brush your teeth, pick out a book, it takes at most 5 minutes to read the story. My son does really well academically, and I chalk that up to reading the story every night (can't be his dad's genes, I'm an idiot, how else do you explain being a Nova Scotian Flames fan?)