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When the sacrifice required for your values defeats their purpose

I work two jobs to send my kids to private school but I never see them awake during the week, and I am starting to question whether better education is worth missing their childhood.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The effort required to provide what parents believe children need paradoxically prevents them from giving what children actually need most.

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