It may be a little easier if we know ahead of time that some of the intensity we feel as we try to help our own children with their hard times is very likely related to what we went through ourselves when we were children. Even if our childhoods were relatively problem-free, growing always presents us with difficulties to be overcome ... and the memories of these difficulties are so easily awakened as our children encounter similar difficulties of their own.
Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers
by Fred Rogers (one of my personal Saints)
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