爆笑英语口语 第114期:孩子是家长的一面镜子!

 　　Language Points

　　If your child is lying that means you have overreacted to their past mistakes.

　　If your child has poor self-esteem, it may becuase you advice them more than you encourage them.

　　If you buy everything for your children still they take things that don't belong to them. Because you don't let them choose.

　　If your child is a coward¹, it's because you help them too quickly. Don't remove every obstacle² from their path.

　　If your child gets angry quickly, the reason might be you have not praise them enough,they can only get attention misbehaving.

　　If your child doesn't stand up for themselves, it's because from a young age you have disappointed them regularly publicly.

1 coward   

n.懦夫，胆小鬼

参考例句：

• The newspapers had unjustly labelled him as a coward.那家报纸不公正地称他为懦夫。
• I was basically a dreadful coward.从根本上说，我非常胆小怕事。

2 obstacle   

n.障碍，障碍物，妨害

参考例句：

• She felt that her family was an obstacle to her work.她感到她的家庭妨碍她的工作。
• He is in the full flush of success;nothing was an obstacle.他的成就如日中天，锐不可当。