The Dutch have a rather nice answer to this dilemma. It’s called Papadag, Daddyday. An average work week in the Netherlands is 36 hours per week and on top of that as many as 25% of Dutch fathers work part time, ostensibly to spend more time with children. This interesting little article on Papadag will give you some appreciation for the practice. The idea being that fathers spend one day per week with their children. There are work places that make this part of the contract in order to attract applicants. I rather like that. It’s not unlike the Biblical command that prevented husbands from being conscripted into the army in the first year of their marriage. Life on a more human scale.
The last few years have allowed me to spend some extended times with grandsons and for that I am grateful. Pakedag!!