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Crowley
Crowley
01:00
@Willow I hope that all the edits do improve the answer while keeping the core I wanted to address. Maybe the problem lies within my urge to play on words and my urge to think in "very different ways and means". Maybe I have also read and heard too many notjudgemental judgements so I take both "Go on diet" and "Have you considered changing your diet?" almost equal and latter one as slightly more rude than the first one.
 
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Willow
Willow
12:10
@Crowley "Have you considered changing your diet?" could be rude in context -- this is why it is so difficult. Believe me, I did not just walk in here and get no complaints or requests for edits. I have maybe had a few days since I had 'help'. I like this site and it is worth it (to me, at least) to learn the ropes. Even the moderators are 'helped' if someone thinks they've got it wrong.
@Crowley I can see how hard you are trying to make this a better answer. "Try to focus on fun with your kid and belittle their troubles." What do you think 'belittle' means? It's a verb, from Google Dictionary: verb
make (someone or something) seem unimportant.
"this is not to belittle his role"
synonyms: disparage, denigrate, run down, deprecate, depreciate, downgrade, play down, trivialize, minimize, make light of, pooh-pooh, treat lightly, scoff at, sneer at; formal derogate; rare misprize
"he had been warned on two previous occasions to stop belittling his students"
@Crowley So I think you did not mean 'belittle' at all. In my classroom if children seemed to hurt themselves we reacted by calling out,"Oopsie!" If they were not too hurt, they would laugh, but if they were hurt, all we had done was to note they'd falling. The "oopsie" just made it possible to laugh and brush it off -- if they were not in fact really hurt.
 
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Crowley
Crowley
16:55
@Willow Maybe the fact english is not my mother tongue and some of "my" words share competely different english words and vice versa. Both "fun" and "touble" refer to the emotion or attitude towards the kid, not their status. If I could switch to completely different topic, it would be "Try to focus on [astonishing graphics] and belittle [the bugs]" when someone would complain about gaming expirience. I certainly wanted to use belittle, it fits perfectly to the context I wanted to deliver. "Troubles" is the problem here; How to address in one word "the parts of their behaviour you do not li…
And I thank you for helping me with it. Your answers here in chat are really helpful. And your critique points out where I am wrong and forces me to re-think the words once and twice again. It helps me to understand how my words may be understood.
Willow
Willow
@Crowley that may well be it. I do understand that you are trying to help! That is why I am trying to help you, in return. I hope you'll stick around and try answering another question. I would suggest keeping your answers simple though. Not everyone has your sense of humor or is smart enough to understand you playing with words.

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