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Time studies find that a mother, especially one who works outside the home for pay, is among the most time-poor humans on the planet, especially single mothers…

…research found… people with more education [feel] more than time stress than those with less education.

…in carefully looking at what fathers are actually doing… a time study of Australian parents [found] that fathers are still largely the ‘fun’ parent.

Men tend to enjoy longer, unbroken stretches of time in any activity…

Without time to reflect, to live fully present in the moment and face what is transcendent about our lives… we are doomed to live in purposeless and banal busyness.

…it takes ten to twenty times the amount of the interruption time to return to the previous task: It can take five minutes are a mere thirty-second interruption to get back on track.

When you are overwhelmed, when you can neither predict nor control the forces shaping your time, when you don’t even have time to think about why you’re overwhelmed, much less what to do about it, you’re powerless.

…because we’ve been so busy shouting past one another since 1971 about the best way to protect the time it takes to create havens at home, we’ve failed to protect time or those havens at all.

There’s a myth that you can have everything. You can’t. But you can have time for the things that are more important to you. – Jessica DeGroot

…people the world over describe their lives as an overwhelming, crazed, and often punishing grind. They say they yearn for nothing more than time for joy. Time to play.