Log in now. Loading Comments Email Name Website. I prefer to tackle predicaments iteratively. Look for the low-hanging fruit. Make a small change that makes a difference. Make another small change. Maybe you eventually navigate out of the predicament.
Maybe the predicament is something you have to accept to some extent, but your adjustments make it a little better and more bearable. October 13, at pm. Substantially with you Brian. I like your reframing of a predicament as a complex problem or set of problems without a single quick solution. The rub for me is the possibility that doing something to make a difference … going after the low hanging fruit, or making a small change here, or there … might actually make the situation worse.
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Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. I articulate their predicaments. See predicate , -ment. Predicament, dilemma, plight, quandary refer to unpleasant or puzzling situations. Predicament and plight stress more the unpleasant nature, quandary and dilemma the puzzling nature of the situation. Predicament and plight are sometimes interchangeable; plight, however, though originally meaning peril or danger, is seldom used today except laughingly: When his suit wasn't ready at the cleaners, he was in a terrible plight.
Predicament, though likewise capable of being used lightly, may also refer to a really crucial situation: Stranded in a strange city without money, he was in a predicament. Dilemma, in popular use, means a position of doubt or perplexity in which one is faced by two equally undesirable alternatives: the dilemma of a hostess who must choose between offending her anti-drinking guests or disappointing those who expected cocktails.
Quandary is the state of mental perplexity of one faced with a difficult situation: There seemed to be no way out of the quandary. The worry of the baby falling down the stairs was a temporary situation that did not require him to walk; it did require him to use whatever means he could master to navigate stairs safely. While I am not advising parents to not use gates there may be reasons why you need to use them , this example demonstrates that it is also important that your child is able to master safety for herself whenever possible, as early as possible.
Especially in the network culture. What is the difference between authoritarian i. How can your parenting style empower or discourage children to assume healthy responsibility for their own thoughts and actions on and off-line? Brave versus Risky. About: We are a non-profit education center founded in Roseville, CA to strengthen the parent-child bond in a hyper-connected world.
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