"Family Talk Wednesday" My First Priority is My Family, Then Business

There is a whole, relatively complex philosophy, around what it means to make your family the top priority. Some parents work hard outside the home to provide wealth and thus give 100% of their lives for the good of the family. Others spoil their children, lavishing them with luxuries as much as possible so that their #1 priority knows they are. Others protect kids from any possible stress or bad feelings, thereby showing that they are #1. Others do the opposite, pushing them relentlessly to become hardened top performers, giving them the skills to kill and eat the competition. All those are vastly different directions, with different outcomes, yet the same motivation. 

Making family priority #1 seems more clear-cut in these moments of crisis than in the everyday.  Is it more important that I comfort a sick child or write?  The answer there is obvious.  But in our day-in, day-out life, it sometimes becomes more difficult to ensure that our priorities are reflected in our actions.