80% of time spent between parents and children has happened by the time the kids leave home.
If you have children this means that by the time they are packing their bags to head off to Uni or to start work, you will have very little face-to-face time with them moving forward. No wonder people experience empty nest syndrome – that’s a massive life change. For those of us without children the statistic still applies, just in reverse. By the time you left home you had spent 80% of the in-person time you will ever spend with your parents. Tim Urban describes this as sayi