Problem: Article: A lack of self-love can lead you to make harmful choices. A lack of self-love often equates to a lack of self-worth that leads to conscious or unconscious self-sabotage and prevents individuals from advocating for their own basic needs. Lack of self-love can lead to a harmful dependence on others for validation. Relying on others for validation often leads people to set aside their own needs in order to gain others' approval. Lack of self-love can also prevent emotional healing and progress; one study showed that individuals who engage in self-blame and ignoring themselves had poorer outcomes in psychotherapy. Parent-child relationships have lifelong effects on character development; children who did not have physical, emotional, and mental needs met may have lasting problems with low self-esteem. Negative messages received in childhoodparticularly recurring messagesoften stick in an individual's mind and color their self-perceptions later in life. For example, a child who is told that he/she is "dull" or "boring" will likely think that he/she is dull or boring as an adult, even if there is evidence to the contrary (such as having many friends, making people laugh, or living an interesting lifestyle). Parents can follow the following advice to improve their children's feelings of self-worth: Listen to your children; it increases their self-worth.It can be easy to "tune-out" a child who talks a lot, not really listening to what he/she is saying. However, if you really listen to him/her and interact with him/her by asking him/her follow-up questions and responding to his/her words, he/she will feel that you value what he/she has to say. Teach children in a non-aggressive way (without hitting, yelling, or shaming) to stabilize their feelings of self-worth.For example, if your child hits another child, you can pull him/her to the side and calmly tell him that he/she shouldn't hit other children because it can hurt them. If necessary, you can have him/her take a short break to breathe and collect himself/herself before returning to play. Offer children warmth, affection, support, and respect without judgment to make children feel worthy of love and acceptance. If your child tells you that he/she is sad about something that seems silly to you (like the sun going down), do not dismiss his/her feelings. Acknowledge his/her feelings by saying, "I understand that you are sad that the sun went down. Then do your best to explain why the situation cannot be changed by saying something like, "The sun has to go down every night because the world is turning and the people on the other side of the Earth need to get sunshine too. It also gives us the opportunity to rest and get ready for the next day." Finally, offer a hug or other physical affection to comfort your child and help him/her feel that you empathize with him/her, even if you cannot change the situation. You will encounter negativity in your life. Self-love cannot be practiced in a bubble, without the influence of outside comments and potential negativity. As such, you must learn to deal with negativity from your partner, your boss, your parents, or even strangers on the street. You can empower yourself to let such negativity roll off of you without allowing it to change your feelings of self-worth.
Summary: Know the dangers of a lack of self-love. Recognize the importance of childhood experiences to loving yourself. Understand how parents can support self-esteem. Understand the effects of outside comments on self-love.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: The more you play and watch, the faster and better you'll get. Since every poker game is different, it's important to develop good instincts rather than try to memorize and apply tricky systems. Observe experienced players and imagine how you'd react in their position. Then, watch how the experienced players react to build your own instincts. While you do this, consider how successful you'd have been if you were playing and reacted as you did. Would you have won, or would you have lost? Then, decide how you can improve your strategy going forward. and cut the deck before they're dealt. Shuffling the cards mixes them up to make the game more fair. To do a basic shuffle, split the deck into 2 stacks. Next, hold a stack in each hand close together and facing each other. Use your thumbs to flip through the cards, combining the deck into one. After the cards are shuffled, get someone who isn't the dealer to cut the deck by separating it into 2 stacks and placing the bottom stack on top. Do several shuffles to make sure the cards are mixed up. You can cut the deck more than once if you'd like. The dealer typically does the shuffling and bets last, which is called the "button" position. After each hand, you'll pass the dealer/button position to the next player on the left. If the dealer is always the same person, like in a casino, the button position will still pass clockwise around the table. You can say this if you are the first better or if all those already betting have checked. If you say "check" when it's your turn at the beginning of a new hand, that means you are choosing not to place a bet at that point. Instead, you pass the chance to open to the next player. In the following rounds, if you say "check," that means you're staying with the bets you already paid into the pot during this hand, and you won't pay more until someone else raises during their turn. If another player does raise on that hand, then you nor anyone else can say "check" or maintain your "check"so when the play comes around to you again you have to either match or raise the latest bet or fold your hand. For example, you could raise the ante $1 or at least the agreed minimum raise. If you choose not to open, take turns in clockwise order, until someone else has opened or every player checked. If everyone checks, then it is time to choose to discard and draw 1 to 3 cards, or "hold pat" on the cards you have. When there are fewer than 3 cards available to draw, replacements will be drawn. The dealer will have to shuffle the discards and add them to the bottom of the draw stack. Calling means making a bet equal to the last bet or raise. For example, if the person right of you just bet $10 and it's now your turn, you would say "call" or "I call" to match that bet. Then you would place $10 in chips or cash in the pot. This is also known as "sweetening the pot." Raise or re-raise requires finishing this round and making another round to now allow any others to "call" or "raise" the amount of that last bet to stay in the game, or else "fold". The ones who already called can check on this turn and the hand is finished unless someone re-raises. If someone before you bets $20 and you think you have a winning hand or you want to bluff, you can raise when it's your turn by saying "raise to $30." However, do not say "I see your 20, and I'll raise you 10" Despite being popular in movies, this is actually frowned upon as sloppy table talk. Folding means forfeiting your cards and giving up that pot with any bets you've made into it. Wait to be dealt into the next hand if you have chips or have not reached your limit of losses. To fold when it's your turn, put your cards face down on the table and place them onto the discard pile. You can fold at any point in a hand when it's your turn. This means exchanging your poker chips for money. If you still have chips but don't want to play anymore, take your chips to the bank and tell them you're ready to cash in. The bank will determine how much money your chips represent, then they'll hand you cash. You can usually return and watch the game after you cash in.
Summary:
Practice and watch others play to develop quick instincts. Shuffle the cards Say "check" to skip placing a bet or simply tap the table twice with two fingers. Say "I open" if a bet hasn't been placed yet and you want to open betting. Say "call" if you want to bet the same as the last person. "Raise" to increase the current betting amount. Say "I fold" when you're ready to quit a hand. "Cash-in" when you're ready to quit the game.