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Would you do this for them? You do the school drop off, you take them to practice, you cheer
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them at their recitals, the games, the competitions, you volunteer to coach, to shaperone to bake,
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you help them with their science project, their book reports, their math homework.
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Maybe you even help them clean their room and organize their stuff. You do all of this for them.
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Of course you do. They're your kids. But when do you make time to do the things that you need to do,
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that box you've been meaning to go through, that room in your house, it's just become a dumping
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