There is a trend in mothering. You must do increasingly more. Your children will be deprived emotionally if you are not constantly engaged. Thousands upon thousands of words have been written dedicated solely to put down the phone, be more available, turn off the computer, and engage more. And I’m not here to argue those things are bad. They are most certainly good. But they are not the whole of good parenting. There are benefits to lazy mothering. And I’m beginning to see them.