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Why Your Child Questions Your Work Choices

My six-year-old came home saying his friend's mom doesn't work because she loves her kids more and now he asks why I go to work if I love him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent confronts how other families' choices become implicit judgments on their own decisions and must help their child understand different ways of showing love.

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