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Caller 1 — Brenna: Homeschool vs. Private School and Mom Guilt
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Brenna from Las Vegas calls in debt-free, working part-time, with a comfortable budget — and drowning in guilt. Her friends' kids are heading to a $13,000-a-year church private school, and she's leaning toward homeschooling, but can't shake the fear she's failing her son. Dave cuts through the noise immediately: the school is not the secret sauce. Gratitude, resilience, work ethic, the ability to do hard things — those are the real pre-indicators of adult success, not a tuition receipt. He admits he bought a Jaguar at 23 just so other people would look at it, calling himself 'a shallow little turd,' to illustrate how we chase the wrong signals. George adds that handing a 16-year-old a Range Rover doesn't mean you gave them everything — it just creates an expensive disaster.
The school your kid attends has virtually nothing to do with whether they become a successful adult. The real indicators — gratitude, work ethic, resilience, and the ability to do hard things — come from parents, not tuition bills.
