Question

求一篇关于备考英语四级的英文文章

Answer 1

Nowadays, there is a popular phenomenon that more and more parents are doing all things for their children. For example, they will offer them everything like food or clothes at home. They even send them to school and arrange for everything at dorm for them. As a result, their children can do nothing by themselves.
About this, there are many factors accountable for the phenomenon. On one hand, there is only one child in many families, so most parents regard them as their “Adam’s Apple”. So, they would try all best to satisfy their needs. On the other hand, the whole society, including schools are paying more attention to study rather than independent education.

As parents, they should do their best to encourage their children’s independence. For one thing, they should allow their children to do those things that they can manage themselves. For instance, washing, making the bed or making decisions. For another, students themselves should develop an independent concept that they are mature enough to do things freely since they have grown up. When they face some difficult situations, they should think by themselves rather than ask parents to do whatever for them. Lastly, the school or society should also advocate a kind of independent spirit that to be independent is vital for young people to grow up and to be successful in the future.

Answer 2

It is nothing unusual to find overprotective parents who help their children in all aspects of life. The question is, are they sure their heart loaded with love will bring good to their children? Let’s look at the real situation of the second-rich generation. Some of them, rather than becoming the second-strong generation, becomes the defeated generation which is notorious for their life focused on consumption rather than creation.

Because of the changes of education in history, most Chinese parents, though successfully accumulate wealth, don’t know much about the right value they should pass on to the new generation. They have tried all that they can to be good parents while neglecting the core value they should address, which is INDEPENDENCE.

How should parents help children to be independent?

They should give their children the freedom to make choices for themselves. Children cannot be happy if they don’t have control over their life, which in daily life, means they make choices for themselves, like, what to eat, what to wear, what career to do, what kind of spouse they are going to marry. Some parents may be open-minded enough to let their children to make these tiny decisions about food and clothes, but when it comes to the big ones, they are too anxious to let their children have a try. They used to be young and they made mistakes and now it is their sons and daughters’ turn to be young—the deep love and care is so intense that it becomes even suffocating--they are reluctant to give their children opportunities to start to be responsible for their own lives.