用不着你包办一切孩子好着呢_BEC初级作文

用不着你包办一切孩子好着呢

专家们表示，与我小时候，也就是20世纪40年代和50年代相比，今天由陌生人实施的针对儿童的犯罪非但没有增加，很可能还显著减少了。要知道，我们那时候是自己步行上学，还在户外跟朋友玩耍，旁边都没有成年人的监管。“世界不是完美的——从来就不是，但过去我们一直相信孩子们自己能行，相信他们可以从中学会随机应变，”斯科纳兹女士说。“而如今的这些焦虑的父母传达给子女们的信息却是：‘我爱你，但我不信任你。我不相信你像我一样能干。’ ”

Dr. Gray, author of “Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life,” said in an interview, “If children are not allowed to take routine risks, they’ll be less likely to be able to handle real risks when they do occur.”

格雷博士撰写了《会玩才会学——当野孩子有什么不好？》(Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life)一书。他在接受采访时说，“如果孩子们从没有机会面对日常风险，那么，当真正的危险降临时，他们越不可能有能力应对。”

Case in point: His college’s counseling office has seen a doubling in the rate of emergency calls in the last five years, “mainly for problems kids used to solve on their own,” like being called a bad name by a roommate or finding a mouse in the room. “Students are prepared academically, but they’re not prepared to deal with day-to-day life, which comes from a lack of opportunity to deal with ordinary problems,” Dr. Gray said. “Over the past 60 years, there’s been a huge change, well documented by social scientists, in the hours a day children play outdoors — less than half as much as parents did at their children’s ages,” he said.