But we live in a consumer culture that says the only way to serve yourself is to say yes.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Finding a moment to realize that we can say no, that our value comes outside of our ability

to achieve is essential and it is hard.

And so that trickles down into the way we treat our kids, the way we treat each other,

the way we parent.

This is Sarah and Beth, you're listening to Pantsy Politics, the home of Grace-filled

little conversations.

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Pantsy Politics.

On today's show, we're going to start out with a news update.

Lots happening around the world and on our border that we're going to talk about in

the first segment of the show.

In our main segment, we're going to talk about two viral articles that I think ask a simple

question, are we failing our kids?

We're going to talk about that.

Simple question, simple and easy.

Then of course at the end of the show, we'll talk about what's on our mind outside politics,

but before we get started, we get an email from Abby recently and I can't tell you what

it was about because she asked us not to talk about that.

We're going to respect that.

But she was sharing a very specific, very impactful way and episode affected her and what

she said in this one sentence took my breath away.

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