I make time to see them and almost never miss sports days, school plays or any major milestones in their lives.
It's little things like that, missing out on milestones in other people's lives.
Already this week, the US news business has witnessed a quartet of major milestones for independence, and with them, the first test of whether formerly major media companies really need their moguls.
"It's potentially one of the milestones in the history of London, and not just because of Shakespeare.
You can see the events as thery are collected in real time: ATLAS : CMS : LHCb : ALICE Here is a summary of the progess and milestones over the last few months and what it means.
Bonuses for chief executives at all five firms are tied to the achievement of delivery milestones in the construction and deployment of such projects.
A season which began with widespread examination and criticism of Manchester United's defensive shortcomings is concluding with the focus very much on the other end of the field as Louis van Gaal collected a couple of unwanted milestones at Old Trafford.
Osborne said: "In a week of economic milestones, today we learn that January saw the largest monthly surplus in the public finances since the crisis, putting us on track to meet our borrowing forecasts and halve the deficit as a share of GDP this year".
But as well as the big moments in history, the records also mark milestones in people's personal lives; the archive includes birth and wedding announcements and obituaries.
Britain's biggest bird of prey passes three milestones this spring.
While the memorial does tell the stories of first world war milestones and battles that Gallipoli has culturally eclipsed (Pozieres, Fromelles, Ypres, Passchendaele, Hamel, Villers Bretonneux, Beersheba and Damascus), Nelson is mindful of recounting demobilisation and the generational social and emotional legacies of the great war.
