Rubik's cube and learning to read

YES!!! I have solved the Rubik's cube without help. It's only taken me only 6 short months. Here's the cycle of my progress:
Step 1: try to solve the Cube and come to the conclusion that this Rubik's cube is somehow flawed an incapable of being solved.
Step 2: look up on the internet how to solve the blasted thing...... without success.
Step3: Try to take all the stickers off and rearrange in completed order
Step 4: Those damn stickers are impossible to get off without industrial solvent
Step 5: Get pissed off at the Universe for not giving me more brain cells
Step 6: Accept the fact I am not a genius - I have to admit this was a LOOOOOOng process for me
Step7: Don't touch the cube for 4 months because it is my symbol of a sub-genius IQ
Step 8: Use it to keep my hands busy just for fun with no interest in solving
Step 9: Have an "ahh haa" moment, learn the key, and solve the puzzle
Step 10: board with the whole thing and on to something else

Yesterday when I solved it for the first time something really interesting happened completely unrelated to the Cube. Jake had a piece of the "learning-to-read" puzzle fall into place for him. I think God put those two events together for me. Here's my thoughts.

1. Struggle is normal, appropriate and even necessary. The trick is not to get frustrated by the process. Love the process, accept the process, and allow the process without rushing.
2. Laugh at it. Yes, it's funny how many times my sweet-pea J can sound out the word "H-A-S" but no more funny than me making the same mistake on the Rubik's cube 900 times. That's a conservative estimate too. Laughing puts it all in perspective. Who cares if he doesn't know the word "has"......EVER it won't wreck his life nor will my lack of ability in solving the cube.
3. Take time. It won't come in a hour, day, month or even a year. But constant familiarity helps - enjoy it and take the pressure OFF.
4. Finally, the puzzle will solve it's self...always. It's by accident without any extra skill on the teachers part or the student. It just clicks and it is.....in it's own time.

This morning J was working on his English and looked at me 3 quarters of the way though and looked at me and said "Mom I don't even need you to help me anymore". It's true, I hadn't even noticed but he did his reading without me, and didn't even sound out the word H-A-S once. How does that happen?