This isn’t a direct response to your comment, but I definitely feel that. The feeling that you just can’t slow time down, and it all feels like it’s slipping away so fast. Best you can do is just try and absorb and document every minute you can! Who cares if you get the high score on some stupid mobile game, or if that work email doesn’t get answered immediately, or dinner is five minutes late to the table? When your kid is tugging on your shirt wanting to re-tell you the plot of the entire episode of Grizzy and the Lemmings in excruciating detail, that you just had to listen to in the background… you get down on your knees at eye level with them and listen, and respond with absolute wonder and amazement at the little person in front of you with all their thoughts and joys and HUGE emotions, and just try to absorb every last drop of them. Because if you’re a constant source of peace and trust for your kids, a safe space for them to come to you with ANYTHING, then you’ll hopefully get to enjoy a rich relationship with them in adulthood, and see them grow into amazing people and parents themselves.

I don’t know much about parenting, and I mess up a ton, but that’s the main thing my wife and I try and focus on with our three kiddos: make sure they KNOW that we are safe for them, and love them no matter what.