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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.
According to the passage, Tim Gill holds the idea that______.
选项
A、people should educate their children by themselves
B、social pressure is good for children to become mature
C、today’s children bear more study burden than before
D、children need more stimuli from schools and society
答案
C
解析
本题细节定位于第五段第_和第二句话“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”。Tim Gill认为,当代的压力以及我们养育和教育孩子的方式,使得很多孩子无法应对。在他看来,现在是时候回归最基本的了——自由玩耍、探索和犯错。由此可知,他认为现在的孩子们学业压力过大,因而失去了最基本的东西。因此选择C。
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