It's All Quality Time

Published: Dec. 2, 2019, 5 p.m.

You\u2019ll hear other dads talk about the need for \u201cquality time\u201d with their kids. It\u2019s sort of a strange phrase, if you think about it. Because it implies a kind of hierarchy of time that nobody has ever really bothered to define. There\u2019s a judgement to it too, that maybe the time or experiences you\u2014the busy, ordinary, doing-the-best-you-can dad\u2014give your kids is not enough. The comedian Jerry Seinfield, who has three kids\u2014an 18-year-old daughter, a 16-year-old son, and a 13-year-ol...