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#74: If you're waiting until they're older, then...

You are building a house. You spend years on the walls, the roof, the paint. But you decided to skip the foundation because the ground looked solid enough. Then, the storm comes. It always comes. And suddenly, you aren't fixing a leak—you are watching the entire structure collapse. This is exactly how most people parent. They wait for the teenage years to install values, and by then, the cost is astronomical. We discuss the brutal math of reactive parenting: how fixing a problem later costs 100 times the energy, money, and heartache of preventing it now. Don't wait until the house is falling…

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