音频·阅读 | 为人父母,审慎处之( 八 )

Again, these parents are not necessarily intentionally choosing against certain goods; rather, in their single-mindedness, they neglect them.

 

I understand the impulse for parents to take down other parents on the internet.

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None of us know if we’re doing it right, so it feels good to have an obvious example of Doing It Wrong with which to compare ourselves. But this only further feeds the original insecurity. Rather, let me make a proposal that might sound radical in an age of internet trolls

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and Twitter wars: Let’s work on growing in prudence together by trying to understand—and maybe even learn from— those whose parenting choices are different from our own.

15. brood: 一窝,一伙;scrutiny: 仔细的审视,彻底的检查;deemphasize:使不重要,不再给予强调。

16. constrained: 拘泥的,受限制的。

17.“直升机式父母”将子女的安全看得极其重要,从而将独立、探索和学习解决身心痛苦等这些同样对成长有益的因素排除在外,认为后者只会给孩子带来损害Helicopter parents:“直升机式父母”,指过分介入儿女生活、保护或是干预其生活的父母,因为像直升机一样盘旋在儿女身边,故名;detriment: 损害。