My 5-year-old keeps asking when we'll get to the playground and I keep saying 'five more minutes' for the past hour while I scroll my phone and I can see her getting smaller somehow.
More people experience this than they realize.
The parent's fragmented attention is teaching the child that promises are elastic and presence is conditional.
“Where Are You with Children and time — how they experience it?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.