Quality time

Sometimes abbreviated QT, it is an informal reference to time spent with close family, partners, or friends that is in some way important, special, productive or profitable to one or everyone involved.

[7] One of the earliest records of this phrase in print was in the Annapolis newspaper The Capital, January 1973, in the article "How To Be Liberated": The major goal of each of these role changes is to give a woman time to herself, Ms. Burton explained.

"Quality time" was described in a 1983 letter by the principal of Hampton High School to U.S. Secretary of Education Terrell Bell.

[10] Gary Champan's 1992 book The Five Love Languages defined and popularized the phrase's contemporary usage.

[2] Quality Time is also the title of a 1996 fiction (likely romance) novel by British author Norma Curtis.