北师大版高中英语模块10--Unit29(2)-3

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[00:00.00]3 Pushy¹ parents help children succeed
[00:04.37]Pushy parents may be doing their children more
[00:06.79]harm than good,says Washington-based childcare
[00:09.53]expert Matthew Melmed.
[00:11.91]Professional parents frequently overstimulate
[00:14.42]babies and toddlers and buy them educational
[00:17.16]toys that are too old for them in the belief
[00:19.69]that they are improving their prospects².
[00:22.41]In fact,faced with such demands,the children
[00:24.85]may become frustrated³ and give up completely.
[00:28.00]Worse still,the children recognise that they
[00:30.78]are disappointing their parents and this sense
[00:33.05]of failure eats away at their self-esteem.
[00:36.29]The warning comes as an ever-increasing range
[00:38.60]of educational material is being produced for
[00:41.46]the very young.
[00:42.96]In the US,"hyper-parnting"is rife⁴,
[00:46.11]says Joanna Coles in The Times.
[00:48.69]Expectant mothers are pressured into buying CDs
[00:51.55]such as Mozart for Mothers to Be("Build your
[00:54.27]baby's brain!")while no self-respecting baby
[00:57.27]would be without educational videos including
[01:00.70]Baby Einstein and Baby Shakespeare.
[01:03.11]By the age of one,enrolment in a plethora⁵ of
[01:06.01]classes,from languages to arithmetic,
[01:08.35]is expected.
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