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Facebook and mobile phones mean that many feel they can never have time off from playground gossip. Parents told me how their da
Facebook and mobile phones mean that many feel they can never have time off from playground gossip. Parents told me how their da
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2019-08-27
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Facebook and mobile phones mean that many feel they can never have time off from playground gossip. Parents told me how their daughters worried about their body image from as young an age as seven. For parents of my generation, contemplating how our children are fearing, and whether we are giving them what they truly need, is not an easy thing to do. I have two sons aged seven and four; my husband and I both work full-time. There is the inevitable push and pull of timetables, anxiety about having enough time with the boys, and particularly about whether we’re equipping them to cope with the academic and social pressures that lie ahead.
When we polled more than 1, 000 parents who use the website Mumsnet, the results revealed widespread concern among parents about pressures children face today. About two thirds (64 percent) said there is too much testing in schools, 78 percent said children don’t get to play outdoors enough on their own, and three quarters (75 percent) felt that long working hours made it difficult to spend enough time with their family. The statistics also point to a dramatic rise in the level of childhood depression over the course of a generation.
Three years ago, Britain ranked bottom out of 21 countries in a UN survey of children’s well-being in the world. One in four of the parents we questioned said they believed their kids are less happy than they were at the same age. A worrying consequence of all of this is the dramatic rise in mental health problems in the young, up by a shocking 70 percent since the 1970s. One in ten of our teenage children now has a diagnosable mental health condition.
I met Annabelle Davies, a 19-year-old who had been an outgoing, academically gifted young schoolgirl. After she missed a few weeks of school aged 15 due to a virus, she fell behind with her schoolwork, and found she could no longer cope. The depression that set in was punctuated by suicide attempts and periods in acute psychiatric units. At her lowest points, her exhausted parents couldn’t risk leaving her alone. Annabelle has suffered severe depression for nearly five years, is now painfully thin and exists on heavy medication. We sat and chatted on her mum’s sofa. "I felt pressured to be doing well in my exams, to get good grades, to go on to university — and was scared I was going to let people down, that I was going to fail. I felt physically sick. I couldn’t stop crying. I felt that whatever I did wouldn’t be enough. And you hate yourself because you’re weak." One of the experts I spoke to, Tim Gill, a childhood play consultant, believes that contemporary pressures, combined with the way we now raise and educate our children, is leaving many unable to cope. For him, it’s time to go back to basics — freedom to play, to explore and to make mistakes. "I think back to my own childhood, when my generation roamed far and wide. But today’s children are not free-ranged — they’re battery-reared."
Happily, there are signs that some parents, schools and even politicians are now starting to wise up.
How many parents have limited time with their children according to the poll?
选项
A、Two-thirds.
B、Seventy-eight percent.
C、Three quarters.
D、More than one thousand.
答案
C
解析
本题细节定位于第二段第二句话中“three quarters(75 percent)felt that long working hours made it difficult to spend enough time with their family”,据此可知,四分之三的家长认为工作时间长,导致很难抽出足够的时间陪伴家人。因此选择C。
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