Dr. Aaron Kheriaty
04.02.202515:28
My sister just posted this excellent article for parents: "Contrary to what you may think, alleviating your child’s struggles and suffering does not clear a path to their happiness."
https://www.thriveconsultandcoach.com/post/i-just-want-my-child-to-be-happy
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"While stepping in and mitigating challenges may temporarily ease [your children's] discomfort, it ultimately deprives them of essential opportunities to build resilience, develop skills, and, ultimately, forge their own path to happiness."
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Supporting Your Child Through Struggles
The next time you find yourself thinking, “I just want my child to be happy,” resist the urge to smooth out their path. Instead, consider the following approaches:
--Resist the urge to fix everything. Rather than solving their problems, guide them in developing their own solutions. Help them build confidence by reinforcing their ability to handle challenges independently.
--Embrace imperfection. Your child is still learning how to navigate life. Just as they stumbled when learning to walk, ride a bike, or drive a car, they will make mistakes. Their approach may differ from yours, and that’s okay. Growth comes from trial, error, and perseverance.
--Offer guidance with restraint. As parents, we have wisdom and life experience to share, but it’s essential to strike a balance. When appropriate, offer insights as options rather than directives. If they seek advice, provide it in a way that empowers them to make their own decisions.
--Encourage self-reliance. Allow your child to practice problem-solving now, when the stakes are lower. This experience will prepare them to make sound decisions later in life when the consequences may be greater.
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https://www.thriveconsultandcoach.com/post/i-just-want-my-child-to-be-happy
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"While stepping in and mitigating challenges may temporarily ease [your children's] discomfort, it ultimately deprives them of essential opportunities to build resilience, develop skills, and, ultimately, forge their own path to happiness."
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Supporting Your Child Through Struggles
The next time you find yourself thinking, “I just want my child to be happy,” resist the urge to smooth out their path. Instead, consider the following approaches:
--Resist the urge to fix everything. Rather than solving their problems, guide them in developing their own solutions. Help them build confidence by reinforcing their ability to handle challenges independently.
--Embrace imperfection. Your child is still learning how to navigate life. Just as they stumbled when learning to walk, ride a bike, or drive a car, they will make mistakes. Their approach may differ from yours, and that’s okay. Growth comes from trial, error, and perseverance.
--Offer guidance with restraint. As parents, we have wisdom and life experience to share, but it’s essential to strike a balance. When appropriate, offer insights as options rather than directives. If they seek advice, provide it in a way that empowers them to make their own decisions.
--Encourage self-reliance. Allow your child to practice problem-solving now, when the stakes are lower. This experience will prepare them to make sound decisions later in life when the consequences may be greater.
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12.09.202415:28
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely a defence of the indefensible… Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and cloudy vagueness.”
--George Orwell, Politics & the English Language
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Two of the examples Orwell gives are:
"Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification…
"People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements."
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Why, then, do politicians use doublespeak? “Such phraseology is needed,” Orwell concludes, “if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them…”
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--George Orwell, Politics & the English Language
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Two of the examples Orwell gives are:
"Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification…
"People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements."
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Why, then, do politicians use doublespeak? “Such phraseology is needed,” Orwell concludes, “if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them…”
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06.09.202404:12
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17.09.202404:16
They Think We Are Stupid, Mother Jones edition…
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12.09.202415:26
Happy to announce my forthcoming book, Making the Cut: The Education of a Physician and the Crisis of Medicine, due out in May.
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06.09.202404:11
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04.09.202418:39
Our medical institutions now function on the principle of efficient people-moving—what I call “turnstile” medicine. Medicare’s bundled payments under Obamacare treat every hip-replacement the same, incentivizing hospital administrators to focus on “throughput”—moving patients through the system as quickly as possible. A patient who takes a bit longer to recover from surgery or develops a complication becomes a financial liability for the hospital. This statistical outlier is resented for not behaving according to the principle of maximum efficiency and patient uniformity.
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"Medicine is now in danger of causing more sickness than it heals." My latest... https://brownstone.org/articles/the-escape-from-managerialist-medicine/
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12.09.202415:30
Medicine will continue to improve over the next fifty years—new cures, better surgical techniques, therapies we haven’t yet imagined. But I hope that the biggest advances will emerge in our ability to accept medicine’s limitations. Death represents the unsurpassable horizon against which we practice medicine. The futile attempt to defeat death through biomedical science will only result in undermining our humanity.
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Excellent question …
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