Homework, effort, jobs, and the difference between them.
School & Responsibility
Grades are an outcome. Effort is a behavior. Most families fight about the first and never describe the second — and that is the whole problem.
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School & Responsibility
Not the ones that keep your house tidy — the ones that build a person who can run their own life in four years.
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