Editing Quality time (section)

==History==
Its use as a noun expression ("quality time") began in the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Mostofsky |first1=David I. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yXdGAQAAQBAJ&dq=expression+quality+time+began+in+the+1970&pg=PA13 |title=Behavioral Dentistry |last2=Fortune |first2=Farida |date=2013-10-07 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-118-76457-2 |language=en}}</ref> One of the earliest records of this phrase in print was in the [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]] newspaper ''[[The Capital]]'', January 1973, in the article "How To Be Liberated":
{{blockquote|The major goal of each of these role changes is to give a woman time to herself, Ms. Burton explained. "A woman's right and responsibility is to be self fulfilling," she said. She gives "quality time" rather than "quantity time" to each task, whether it be writing, cleaning the house or tending the children.}}

In the context of public schooling, the [[National Commission on Excellence in Education]] began to use the phrase circa 1983. "Quality time" was described in a 1983 letter by the principal of [[Hampton High School (Allison Park, Pennsylvania)|Hampton High School]] to [[United States Secretary of Education|U.S. Secretary of Education]] [[Terrel Bell|Terrell Bell]]. Principal Scholtz wrote, "Quality time will be enhanced by reducing that time spent by teachers on discipline and on administrative duties" and thereby "freeing teachers to do what they do best...teach".<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GK-1TqseagkC&q=quality%20time |title=Oversight of Quality in Education: Report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education |date=1984 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=42 |language=en}}</ref>

By 1985, the phrase was in common use in books about [[parenting]] and [[parenting styles]]. Examples include ''A Parents' Guide to Quality Time with Preschoolers'' (1984),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Burtt |first=Kent Garland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vLlzwgB9zp8C&q=%22Quality+time%22 |title=Smart Times: A Parent's Guide to Quality Time with Preschoolers |date=1984 |publisher=Harper & Row |isbn=978-0-06-015287-1 |language=en}}</ref> ''The Quality Time Almanac: A Sourcebook of Ideas and Activities for Parents and Kids'' (1986),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sullivan |first=St Clair Adams |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9K8_SRg3VKYC |title=The Quality Time Almanac: A Sourcebook of Ideas and Activities for Parents and Kids |date=1986 |publisher=Doubleday |isbn=978-0-385-18293-5 |language=en}}</ref>  and ''Parentips: Quality Time with Kids'' (1986).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Neely |first=Bonnie Burgess |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7DbJg2LGbM8C&q=%22Quality%20time%22 |title=Parentips: Quality Time with Kids |date=1987 |publisher=Pocket Books |isbn=978-0-671-60782-1 |language=en}}</ref>

[[Gary Chapman (author)|Gary Champan]]'s 1992 book ''[[The Five Love Languages]]'' defined and popularized the phrase's contemporary usage.<ref name=":0" /> 

''Quality Time'' is also the title of a 1996 fiction (likely [[Romance novel|romance]]) novel by British author [[Norma Curtis]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Curtis |first=Norma |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aRSaAAAACAAJ |title=Quality Time |date=1996 |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |isbn=978-0-00-649025-8 |language=en}}</ref>

''[[The Time Bind]]'', a 1997 book,<ref>{{cite book|ref=none |last=Russell Hochschild |first=Arlie
   |author-link=Arlie Russell Hochschild
   |title=The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
   |url=https://archive.org/details/timebindwhenwork00hoch
   |url-access=registration |publisher=Metropolitan Books
   |location=New York  |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-8050-4471-3}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=9YCJVeSHodEC&q=%22Time+bind%22 Google Print]</ref> was mentioned in Newsweek's multi-page feature about "The Myth of Quality Time".<ref name="QuaLTime.NWcov" /> The same issue of ''Newsweek'' had a full-page review<ref name="QuaLTime.NW4Life">{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Newsweek]]
|title=Time Bind? What Time Bind?
|author=Marc Peyser  |date=May 12, 1997 |page=69}}</ref> of another 1997 book, ''Time for Life'',<ref name="QuaLTimeBook4Life" /> which emphasizes that most people have a flawed "ability to separate faulty perception of time use from reality."<ref name="QuaLTimeBook4Life">{{cite book
       |title=Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time
       |author1=John Robinson  |author2=Geooffrey Godbey |year=1997
       |isbn=978-0-271-03426-3  |publisher=Penn State Press}}</ref> Author Robinson's diary-based research shows that 15 hours per week of "free time" (the greatest category of time used) goes into TV viewing.<ref name="QuaLTime.NW4Life" />