When it comes to situations where youre caring for another child, white is straightforward: common sense must prevail. If things dont go well, then have a chat.
Therere a couple of new grey areas. Physical punishment, once accepted from any adult, is no longer appropriate. A new set of considerations has come to the fore as part of the debate about how we handle children.
For Andrew Fuller, the child-centric nature of our society has affected everyone: The rules are different now from when todays parents were growing up, he says, Adults are scared of saying: dont swear, or asking a child to stand up on a bus. Theyre worried that there will be conflict if they point these things out either from older children, or their parents.
He sees it as a loss of the sense of common public good and public courtesy , and says that adults suffer form it as much as child.
Meredith Fuller agrees: A code of conduct is hard to create when youre living in a world in which everyone is exhausted from overwork and lack of sleep, and a world in which nice people are perceived to finish last.
exhausted
介词from表示由于,根据句意,overwork and lack of sleep超时工作,睡眠不足,导致了exhausted疲倦的。
属于内在逻辑关系之根据因果关系猜测词义。
its about what Im doing and what I need, Andrew Fuller says. the days when a kid came home from school and said, I got into trouble. And dad said, you probably deserved it are over. Now the parents are charging up to the school to have a go at teachers.
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