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While traveling for various speaking engagements, I frequently stay overnight in the home of a family and am assigned to one of
While traveling for various speaking engagements, I frequently stay overnight in the home of a family and am assigned to one of
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2015-04-10
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While traveling for various speaking engagements, I frequently stay overnight in the home of a family and am assigned to one of the children’s bedrooms. In it, I often find so many playthings that there’s almost no room—for my small toilet kit. And the closet is usually so tightly packed with clothes that I can barely squeeze in my jacket. I’m not complaining, only making a point. I think that the tendency to give children an overabundance of toys and clothes is quite common in American families, and I think that in far too many families not only do children come to take their parents’ generosity for granted, but also the effects of this can actually be somewhat harmful to children.
Of course, I’m not only thinking of the material possessions children are given. Children can also be overindulged with too many privileges—for example, when parents send a child to an expensive summer camp that the parents can’t really afford. Why?
One fairly common reason is that parents overindulge their children out of a sense of guilt. Parents who both hold full-time jobs may feel guilty about the amount of time they spend away from their children and may attempt to compensate by showering them with material possessions.
Overindulgence of a child also happens when parents are unable to stand up to their children’s unreasonable demands. Such parents vacillate between saying no and giving in— but neither response seems satisfactory to them. If they refuse a request, they immediately feel a wave of remorse for having been so strict or ungenerous. If they give in, they feel regret and
resentment
over having been a pushover. This kind of vacillation not only impairs the parents’ ability to set limits, it also sours the parent-child relationship to some degree, robbing parents and their children of some of the happiness and mutual respect that should be present in healthy families.
But overindulging children with material things does little to lessen parental guilt(since parents never feel that they’ve given enough), nor does it make children feel more loved(for what children really crave is parents’ time and attention). Instead, the effects of overindulgence can be harmful. Children may, to some degree, become greedy, self-centered, ungrateful and insensitive to the needs and feelings of others, beginning with their parents. When children are given too much, it undermines their respect for their parents.
Parents overindulge their children out of a sense of guilt because the parents
选项
A、cannot earn enough money to provide children with material possessions.
B、use the material things to make up for the shortage of time with children.
C、cannot stand up to their children’s unreasonable demands.
D、vacillate between feeling guilty and being too strict.
答案
B
解析
父母溺爱孩子是出于一种愧疚感,因为父母[A]挣不到足够多的钱给孩子提供物质享受。[B]用物质来弥补自己没有陪孩子的时间。[C]顶不住孩子们的无理要求。[D]在感到内疚和严格要求孩子之间举棋不定。根据题干中的关键词overindulge their children out of a sense of guilt可以在第三段第二句话中找到相应的答案。这是一个长句,主语是parents,紧接着是一个定语从句,谓语是并列的两个动词短语,一个是may feel guilty about,另一个是may attempt tocompensate,整句话的意思是:因为全职的工作,家长们因为不能多陪伴孩子而感到内疚,就试图用物质的东西来补偿,符合[B]的内容。[A]错在文中并没有提到家长不能赚钱;[C]是讲述家长宠孩子的另一个原因.[D]也与题干所问的内容不符。
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