Define quality time and elaborate on how it has become a way of transferring the cult of efficiency from office to home
What will be an ideal response?
Quality time has become a powerful symbol of the struggle against the growing pressures at home. It reflects the extent to which modern parents feel the flow of time to be running against them. The premise behind “quality time” is that the time we devote to relationships can somehow be separated from ordinary time. Quality time at home becomes like an office appointment. You do not want to be caught “goofing off around the water cooler” when you are “at work.” It holds out the hope that scheduling intense periods of togetherness can compensate for an overall loss of time in such a way that a relationship will suffer no loss of quality.We must now get our relationships in good repair in less time. Instead of nine hours a day with a child, we declare ourselves capable of getting “the same result” with one intensely focused hour.
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