The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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This is one of my earliest memories. I think I was two or three when we were walking home from a grocery store and my parents asked me to show how I jump off a curb. Not on a skateboard, of course, just trying to engage with the little human walking next to them, throwing him a bone to praise him afterwards. I confidently walked to the edge of the sidewalk and then something went wrong.
I locked up. In the inevitable biopic this episode will have to use dolly zoom to show how impossible the jump suddenly looked to me. I stood on the curbstone silently watching the yawning six-inch-deep chasm in front of me, unable to hop down. I thought about sliding down, but doing this standing up sounded risky. I went into a deep squat and started carefully edging my feet forward. My parents watched all this in total bafflement and mild amusement until my shuffling brought my center of gravity too far forward and I suddenly careened off the edge of the curb and landed face first onto the parking lane in front of me.
I can't tell if I was smarter or stupider than your kid. My precautions allowed me to suffer only minor abrasions, but they were also why I faceplanted in the first place.
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