Technically parenting advice but mainly intended as insight into your own childhoods
Kids are learning emotional literacy, and mislabelling emotions is confusing and makes it harder to process them.
How to tell someone their loved one has died
At the start of the conversation, say "I've got some really sad news about [Person] I'm afraid."
"Don't ask a question if the answer won't change your behaviour"
I think it's also a sign that you're circling and seeking more information to put off making a decision.
Write your future self an email with FutureMe
Write yourself an email when you've just accomplished something so later you can remember and remember how proud you were then (it's so easy to normalise level ups in your life).
What we get wrong about fame
There are two requirements: a local requirement (a spark), and a global requirement (the ability of the fire to spread).
Just because something ends doesn't means it failed: a poem
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew
When someone asks you for a rough estimate and you don't have one
It's super frustrating when you have *literally* no clue and the better-informed person refuses to even hint at what the range might be.
It's totally fine not to cook or like cooking!
It's historically really really new for every individual to be cooking for themselves.
Trying not to get your hopes up: Y/N?
There is nothing protective about pessimism.
Why perfectly nice people say things they don't mean
Some people say "Let me know if there's anything I can do to help?" and what they mean is "the thing you just told me is really sad, and I am feeling, in the present tense, a strong emotion of caring about you"