“I also think that kids are the best teachers of life’s most profound spiritual lessons: that pain and suffering are as much a part of life as happiness and joy; that change and impermanence are all we can count on for sure; that we don’t really run the show; and that if we can’t find the maturity to surrender to these difficult truths, we’ll always be unhappy that our lives – and our children’s – aren’t turning out the way we expected or planned. Life doesn’t go the way we expect or plan, and nobody’s perfect, not ourselves or our children.”
Harriet Lerner, from Vulnerability and Other Lessons
Yes, yes, yes. And even in their twenties, my kids are teaching me these lessons!
I love watching the way emotion comes and goes from my three year old. Amazingly, it leaves more room for joy in the most simple things. Even by seven, my big girl holds her hurts tighter than she once did.
Absolutely perfect timing. Thank you.
So true…I’ve learned more from my own children, and those that I teach, than I could have ever imagined.
excellent, thank you for posting this
I love her work!