An extract from Stephen Witmer’s new book
In one sense, love itself is not very strategic. Anyone who’s ever been a parent understands this.
Loving parents live on repeat. They tell their children a thousand times not to touch the wall socket; they change their diapers a thousand times and kiss a thousand boo-boos; they clean up messes, repeat words of love, and retell the same stories over and over again. Good parents regularly ‘waste’ time with their kids, coloring and hosting imaginary tea parties and playing silly games when they could be accomplishing more important things. All that energy and attention squandered on just one little person is called love.
