" You had to let your children venture out in the world. You couldn’t always find the Barbie shoe. Children had to know pain, or how would they ever know what to do when they encountered it? Trouble would come, no matter what. The best you could do was to raise your children in such a way that when trouble found them—as it would—they’d be able to survive it. Teach your children well. "

― Joyce Maynard , Count the Ways