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Children are emotional mirrors. They don't feel what you say. They feel what you feel.

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Watch the parents at any kids' soccer game this Saturday.

Half are on their phones. Another quarter are gossiping about work. The rest are staring dead-eyed at the field, mentally calculating if they have time to hit Costco after this.

The kids see it all.

Not just that you're distracted. They see that you're dead inside. That you're enduring, not living. That sitting in those bleachers at 7 AM is killing you slowly.

When dad checks email during the game, the kid knows dad would rather be anywhere else. When mom fake-smiles through another tournament, the kid absorbs that love means pretending. When parents stand there dead inside, pretending to care, kids learn that this is what adulthood looks like.

Here's the truth that should terrify every parent: Children are emotional mirrors. They don't feel what you say. They feel what you feel.

And what you feel, sitting in those bleachers at 7 AM on Saturday, is dead inside.

Your kid knows it. Their body knows it. And they're learning that love means dying slowly in public while pretending everything's fine.