I spend our car rides listing everything we need to do when we get home instead of talking to my kids and I can see them just staring out the window, shut out.
More people experience this than they realize.
The parent is treating shared time as personal processing space, inadvertently communicating that their internal to-do list is more important than connection.
“Where Are You with Children and time — how they experience it?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.