It is so amazing to look back upon my life and realize what a great teacher pain has been. How much wisdom and serenity I have gained by surviving those horribly painful times. It gives me strength (when I remember!) to not always solve my own children's problems for them but instead let them find their own answers, even if at the time they are suffering from pain. A big challenge for a parent, to allow their children to learn from pain, when we spent their younger years protecting them from it
