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My House is Dirty but my Conscience is Clean

Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from August 1, 2014 “My House is Dirty but my Conscience is Clean” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around.

annmariastat
4 min readDec 28, 2018

Now that all of my kids are doing well, I get a lot of people asking me how I managed to have four children all turn out to be high-achieving, well-adjusted people.

There are a few answers to that. One is purely by the grace of God, and I mean that. None of my children are schizophrenic, autistic or mentally handicapped. Those are cards that just get dealt and it so happened that none of them got dealt to me.

So far, we’ve hit the genetic lottery in this family.

A second answer is that success depends on when you measure it. There have been times during their teenage years when each one of my children appeared to be on the high road to hell.

When people ask that question, though, I’m pretty sure they want a concrete answer regarding something I did.

Priorities.

My house is dirtier than it used to be because my grandchildren live close now and they come over and mess things up. When all of my children lived at home, it was far worse.

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Written by annmariastat

President, The Julia Group & CEO 7 Generation Games If it touches a number, we do it. 4 daughters, 4 degrees, 1 world championship.

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