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12 Ways to Help Prepare Your Kid for the Real World (Part 2)

By Mikey Rox

This is the second half of a two-part article. If you missed Part 1, click here. Goal Setting & Achievement But what a lot of people get wrong here is setting goals that are too broad or completely unrealistic; it's a setup for failure when ...

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