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  1. Mar 2023
    1. Establish a clear curfew. Make it clear you need to know the details of who your teen will be with, where they will be going, and who will be there. Establish a clear curfew as well. Your child may rail against these rules but may also feel comforted by them—not that they will tell you that.

      For me this is acceptable and it is a compromise.

    2. remember that this is a normal, healthy, and necessary part of any young adult's emotional development.

      As long as it is a healthy and educational relationship

    3. If you overhear your teen saying mean comments or using manipulative tactics, speak up. Similarly, if your teen is on the receiving end of unhealthy behavior, it's important to step in and help out.10

      This really matters it is not intervene in this case

    4. They may make mistakes and/or get hurt but ideally, they will also learn from those experiences.

      I wish I had this kind of experiences but I never get a chance :)

    5. Kids will need to put themselves out there by expressing romantic interest in someone else, risking rejection, figuring out how to be a dating partner, and what exactly that means.

      The most heart-pounding moment!

  2. Nov 2022
    1. “In some cases you might prefer a stronger emotional engagement, in some you might not.”

      We can use this technique in our real life so that it may be easier to convince others

    2. For example, instead of killing a man to save five people from death, they might be asked if they would kill him to save five people from minor injuries. The taboo act of killing the man is the same, but the consequences vary.

      Using different approaches to answering questions does affect the outcome of the answer

    3. “Your native language is acquired from your family, from your friends, from television,” Hayakawa said. “It becomes infused with all these emotions.”

      Indeed our mother tongue grows with us, and all feelings are related to it

    4. English just didn’t have the visceral resonance for him as his native Hebrew. It wasn’t as intimately connected to emotion, a feeling shared by many bilingual people and corroborated by numerous lab studies.

      As a bilingual person, I don't really agree with him

    5. We discovered that people using a foreign language were not any more concerned with maximizing the greater good

      Does it mean that people will maximize the benefits of their decisions? Or will people become more rational.

    6. Speaking a foreign language slows you down and requires that you concentrate to understand.

      It is true that when we think about how to use a foreign language, it is difficult for us to bring our emotions into it.

    7. o breaking an ingrained taboo, an increase in deliberation thought to be associated with a utilitarian sense of maximizing the greater good or some combination of the two.

      complicating

    8. Psychologists at the University of Chicago found in past research that people facing such a dilemma while communicating in a foreign language are far more willing to sacrifice the bystander than those using their native tongue.

      Interesting

    1. Since nobody’s perfect, your translator is likely to make mistakes at times, like giving you faulty translations or accidently altering the final message in minor ways

      Couldn't agree more with the point here that people are not perfect and we all make mistakes, even machines.

    2. While this enables you to reach a much broader customer base, it lowers the level of accuracy and can easily distort the true meaning of your message.

      Very difficult to do a perfect translation

    3. by allowing them to speak to a particular target audience in their own dialect.

      Using the native language of another person or client to persuade them will have a higher success rate than using a foreign language.

    4. It bridges the gaps created by geographical, religious, cultural, and educational differences found all around the world.

      Because of the language, we were able to share many things, our own culture and beliefs, etc., allowing us to learn from each other.