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Why time feels like it accelerated when parenting

My daughter starts high school next year and I keep thinking about how fast she grew up and I feel like I missed it all because I was always working.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The awareness of time's passage creates regret that overshadows the natural flow of life's seasons.

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“Where Are You with Hope as temporal orientation?”

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