His words stuck in my mind because it confirmed (证实) my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn't find out we were "depressed" until we were in high school.

　　Children don't seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to. Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why?

　　Human development is based not only on natural biological states, but also on ways of getting social knowledge. Movement from one social role to another usually needs to learn the secrets of the new social role. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.

　　In the last 30 years, however, television has passed information to all viewers. Unable to resist (抵制) the temptation (诱惑), many children turn their attention from printed texts to more interesting moving pictures.

　　Communication through print, , allows for a great deal of control over the social information which children can get. Reading and writing need symbols that must be memorized and practiced. Children must read simple books before they can read difficult materials. 62. According to the author, feeling depressed is ______________.

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