The two biggest challenges I've overcome in my parent is one, learning to be flexible, because you have all these great ideas about how you'll be a parent, and then your kids come, and they change all of that, and you have to throw it all out the window. For example, we planned on raising our kids overseas. We were going to be ex-pat families who lived cross-culturally and experienced the world. But then my son came along, and he had a severe speech delay, so much that we had to go back to the US, our home country, because he needed lots of speech therapy. So I had to learn to die to myself in many ways, die to my ideas of what would make the best family for us, and really flex. And it's worked out great. We're fine as a family. And we can still hold onto our values no matter where we are in the world. And then the other thing I've had to really learn is to be okay with being myself, and to learn who I am as a person, because that's the best kind of parent I can be, instead of trying to be someone else's parent. An example for me is I learned recently, especially with the dawn of Pinterest, that I'm just not a crafty mom. I would love to be a crafty mom and come up with all these great things for my kids to do every day. But really, I want to do want to do those crafts. I'm great if my kids want to. So that's why we provide art supplies out in our main living area so they can do them all. But I'm not the type of mom to cut and glue paper and glue popsicle sticks and I've learned to be okay with that. And I don't apologize for it anymore, because that's just the mom I am and I have other great qualities I can then focus on, instead of focusing on my weaknesses and trying to be better at those.