Can you please explain what you mean by this? What I got from this article is that he was stressed to the point of not being able to sleep on occasions and that he felt his relationship with his children was not what it could be; he found a way to address that.
It feels to me like a "sorry excuse for a parent" would be someone not considering their children's wellbeing; but this seemed to be one of the author's main preoccupations here.
Can you please explain what you mean by this? What I got from this article is that he was stressed to the point of not being able to sleep on occasions and that he felt his relationship with his children was not what it could be; he found a way to address that.
It feels to me like a "sorry excuse for a parent" would be someone not considering their children's wellbeing; but this seemed to be one of the author's main preoccupations here.
Is he hurting his children in anyway?