How Do You Make Up For the Lost Time?

Think quality not quantity. Sounds like you are working on this. Leave them no doubts that you love them. When you have to be gone, leave them your cellphone number if they need to talk about something important. Keep your eyes and ears open for you can shape your children in remarkable ways. It's never too late to love and interact with your family.

Hi Canaussie, I have been lucky enough that I've never had to be away from my kids for any length of time. I don't think there is really any way to make up for the lack of time spent together but what you can do is make sure that they understand just why you have to be away so much. Make sure they know that you are always thinking of them, love them and you would be there if you could. When you are together then make sure the time you have together is spent enjoying each other and creating memories. It actually sounds as if you have been doing all of that. Good luck, Canaussie!

Making up for lost time is a difficult journey to make. The years cannot come back to you. All you can do is make the most of what you have to share with someone now. These will be the best moments if you let them.

I usually make it up by treating everybody a meal out. Although i don't miss that much of a time with my family. We're always together during weekends. During weekdays everybody has work so there's nothing to miss there.

I had been away from my son for 6 months during his growing up years. I missed a lot of things in his growing time and I just felt guilty. I thought he had forgotten about me. So when we got back together again. I spent the whole night beside him and we had this bonding just for the two of us without his dad. Surprisingly, he uttered the worth mother first when he started speaking instead of father!

i would not say making up is easy but when you are in your breaks from your hectic time have a minute to call the family and make efforts to make them feel special like a little advice to the students a joke for the kids and a long kissing or smacking sound to your wife or husband,

I'm lucky that I have never had to experience long times of being away from my family. However, when I was growing up there were a lot of times that my dad had to go on TDY with work and that meant that he would be away from us for up to a month at a time. Whenever he got home, he always had some kind of a gift for all three of us and we would also spend the weekend immediately after he got home doing something special together.

Hi canaussie. my boyfriend and i have been together for 6 years and a half now and it is a long distance relationship (i am here in asia and he is there in US). but everytime he comes home to me, we always make sure we attend to each others needs, we go on vacation and really take care of each other. we avoid fights and arguments. we try to talk a lot and ask many questions about how life was being apart from each other. try going on a vacation just you and your family or money wise, bring them to the park, bring food and go for a picnic, that would be great :) you can do so much at the park, play talk and eat and just have fun with each other and not have to worry if you get dirty and wet from playing :) or maybe the beach too so much to do too :) i hope this can help you :) give it a try :)