Children possess a natural wisdom about healing that adults often forget. They bounce back from setbacks with remarkable speed and teach us powerful lessons about resilience, joy, and authenticity.

It happens in slow motion. Your six-year-old daughter is sprinting across the playground at school drop-off time when her toe catches on uneven ground. She goes down hard. The playground goes silent.

A mom says not allowing her children to “cry alone” is one of the best parenting decisions she has ever made. “Some totally get it,” Sarah Bullock, a mother of three, tells TODAY.com in an email ...