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"Don't worry, this won't hurt"
"Don't worry, this won't hurt"

RNZ News

time18-06-2025

  • Health
  • RNZ News

"Don't worry, this won't hurt"

Don't worry, this won't hurt. When has that ever turned out to be true? Parents may try to ease a child's anxiety about a medical procedure with a white lie. But lies that mislead children about their experiences are not white lies, says Allison Sweet Grant. She endured terrible pain as a child from surgery to correct one leg that was shorter than the other. In her debut novel for young adults, Grant explores themes of agency, trust, and betrayal through a 19-year-old character facing the same medical trauma she did and learning how to heal. The book is called I am the Cage.

Seven Weekend Reads
Seven Weekend Reads

Yahoo

time11-05-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Yahoo

Seven Weekend Reads

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Our editors compiled seven great reads. Spend time with stories about the risks of trying to raise successful kids, an alarming trend affecting the job market, the top goal of Project 2025, and more. Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids And start raising kind ones. (From 2019) By Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market A new sign that AI is competing with college grads By Derek Thompson The Top Goal of Project 2025 Is Still to Come The now-famous white paper has proved to be a good road map for what the administration has done so far, and what may yet be on the way. By David A. Graham What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler Journalists accurately reported that the führer was a 'Little Man' whom the whole world was laughing at. It didn't matter. By Timothy W. Ryback Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time The nearly 375-year-old religion's principles line up surprisingly well with modern parenting research. By Gail Cornwall The Aftermath of a Mass Slaughter at the Zoo Last year, a fox broke into a bird enclosure in D.C. and killed 25 flamingos. The zoo refused to let him strike again. (From 2023) By Ross Andersen The Sociopaths Among Us—And How to Avoid Them You're bound to come across the 'Dark Triad' type of malignant narcissists in life—and they can be superficially appealing. Better to look for their exact opposite. (From 2023) By Arthur C. Brooks The Week Ahead Final Destination: Bloodlines, the sixth movie in the horror franchise about people marked for death (in theaters Friday) Volume 4 of Love, Death & Robots, an animated anthology series featuring strange and darkly funny short stories (premieres Thursday on Netflix) The Emperor of Gladness, a novel by Ocean Vuong about a desperate 19-year-old who becomes the caretaker of an elderly widow with dementia (out Tuesday) Essay The Not-at-All-Funny Life of Mark Twain By Graeme Wood In his last, most pathetic years, Mark Twain threw himself behind the crackpot theory that the true author of Shakespeare's plays may have been Francis Bacon … The literary critic Northrop Frye, who dismissed the Bacon theory, nevertheless had a wry aside of his own about extrapolating too freely from scattered biographical details and the unflattering portrait that is the only surviving image of Shakespeare. 'We know nothing about Shakespeare,' Frye wrote, 'except a signature or two, a few addresses, a will, a baptismal register, and the picture of a man who is clearly an idiot.' Ron Chernow's Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. Read the full article. More in Culture We're all living in a Carl Hiaasen novel. The comic who's his own worst enemy Gregg Popovich's life lessons David Sims: 'The oddball British comedy show I thought I'd hate (and learned to love)' The catharsis in re-creating one of the worst days of your life What kind of questions did 17th-century daters have? Catch Up on Why this India-Pakistan conflict is different Airport detentions have travelers 'freaked out.' The conclave just did the unthinkable. Photo Album Take a look at these photos of the week, showing a new pope, artistic swimming in Ontario, a bun-scrambling competition in Hong Kong, and much more. Explore all of our newsletters. When you buy a book using a link in this newsletter, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic. Article originally published at The Atlantic

Confronting the pain within
Confronting the pain within

Gulf Weekly

time21-02-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Gulf Weekly

Confronting the pain within

YOUNG adult fiction novel I Am the Cage by Allison Sweet Grant is out on shelves. Taking place in the quiet Fish Creek, Wisconsin, 19-year-old Elisabeth has the only thing she needs: isolation, as she is determined to be alone and hiding from her own memories, making sure no one can hurt her. However, everything changes when a massive storm strikes, forcing her to accept help from her neighbour Noah, the town's sheriff, and showing more vulnerability than she intended, resulting in her realising she can no longer outrun the scars of her childhood. Focusing on the theme of trauma and healing, the story takes inspiration from Allison's personal journey as a young woman who had to confront her medical trauma. 'When I was 11, I underwent a complex procedure to correct a discrepancy in the length of my legs. Surgeons spent 13 hours drilling through my bones and attaching an external metal frame from my hip to my toe,' Allison wrote in an article. 'Before the surgery, when I asked if it would hurt, the only thing I remember being told was 'Don't worry, we have ways to manage any unpleasantness'. The difference between what I was told and what I experienced shattered my faith in doctors and left me questioning whether I could trust adults at all. 'Now, as a parent, and through my years working in health care, I've made the conscious decision never to lie to people about pain. Even with something as small as a routine vaccination, yes, I say, it may hurt,' she added.

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