Product Description: We are directed to 'mind the time' on occasions when diligence to the clock is important. However, to deliberately invoke 'mind your time' is to remember how quickly time, and the clock which serves as its agent, can so quickly recede into the mundane and taken for granted parts of our lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What is family time? What value do we place on it? How many families today have time to be families? How do families view, use and seek to control time, and how successful are they at it? The concept of time is central to the study of families and is used in different ways: families changing through history; families experiencing the passage of time as they age over the life course; and families negotiating time for being together...read more