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1、Who Is In Charge Here,1,PART,Watch A Video,5 dangerous things you should let your kids do,Think about these questions,Spoiling children is an act of love.,Parents should fulfill all the needs of their children.,Parents should always treat their children as friends.,Parents should never lay a hand on

2、 their children.,Discuss in group and tell me what do you think, please.,對(duì)動(dòng)手,2,PART,Understanding,STRUCTURE AND MAIN IDEA,PARAGRAPH 1,Here is parenting (n,養(yǎng)育，撫養(yǎng)) parable（n.寓言故事）for our age. Carla Wagner,17, of Coral Gables.Fla. spent the afternoon drinking the tequila（n.龍舌蘭酒）she charged on her Ameri

3、can Express Gold Card before speeding off in hr high-performance Audi A4. She was dialing her cell phone when she ran over Helen Marie Witty, a 16-year-old honor student who was out rollerblading（v.滑旱冰）.Charged with drunken driving and manslaughter（n.過(guò)失殺人）, Carla was given a trial date-at which poin

4、t her parents asked the judge whether it would be OK if Carla went ahead and spent the summer in Paris, as she usually does.,The kid was charged with drunken driving and manslaughter, but her parents still wanted to take her for fun.,PARAGRAPH 1,這是一則處在我們這個(gè)時(shí)代關(guān)于撫養(yǎng)孩子的預(yù)言故事。來(lái)自佛羅里達(dá)州科勒爾蓋布而斯的17歲女孩Carla Wagn

5、er在花了一個(gè)下午喝龍舌蘭酒并把費(fèi)用記在了她的美國(guó)運(yùn)通金卡上面。她駕駛高性能的奧迪A4超速行駛。當(dāng)她正撥打手機(jī)的時(shí)候，撞倒了在外面滑旱冰的16歲優(yōu)等生Helen Marie Witty. Carla被控告酒駕和過(guò)失殺人并給出正式審訊的日期。而此刻她的父母詢問(wèn)法官Carla 是否可以像往常一樣先去Paris 度過(guò)這個(gè)夏天。,PARAGRAPH 2,A TIME /CNN poll finds that 80% of people think kids today are more spoiled than kids of 10 or 15years ago. and two-thirds of

6、parents admit that their kids are spoiled. In New York City its the Bat Mitzvah whereN Sync was the band; in Houston its a catered （v.提供飲料及服務(wù)）$20,000 pink-themed party for 50 seven-year-old girls who all wore mink（n.貂皮） coats, like their moms.In Morton Grove.11,. its grade school teachers handing ou

7、t candy and yo-yos （n.溜溜球）on Fridays to kids who actually managed to obey the rules that week. Go to the mall or a concert or a restaurant and you can find them in the wild, the kids who have never been told no, whose sense of power and entitlement （n.應(yīng)有的權(quán)力；授權(quán)）leaves onlookers （n.旁觀者）breathless , th

8、e sand-kicking , foot-stomping （v.跺，重踏步）,arm-twisting, wheedling（v.討好或奉承的方法獲得某物）, whining （v.抱怨，牢騷）despots（n.暴君，有至高無(wú)上權(quán)力的統(tǒng)治者） whose parents presumably deserve the company of the monsters they, after all, created.,Many people think kids today are spoiled.However, when they are in the wild ,the kids ha

9、ve never been told no.,PARAGRAPH 2,時(shí)代周刊和CNN的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查顯示80%的人認(rèn)為今天的孩子們比起10年或20年之前的孩子更是被寵壞了。三分之二的父母承認(rèn)他們的孩子被寵壞了。在紐約的猶太女孩成人儀式上，N Sync到場(chǎng)助興。在休斯頓有為50名7歲的孩子們舉辦的價(jià)值20000美金且提供飲食服務(wù)的粉紅主題晚會(huì)，晚會(huì)上她們像媽媽們一樣穿著貂皮大衣。在伊利諾伊州的莫頓格羅夫，一所小學(xué)老師在星期五分發(fā)糖果和溜溜球給這周努力遵守守規(guī)矩的孩子們。去購(gòu)物中心、音樂(lè)會(huì)餐廳你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)孩子們處于一種自然任性的狀態(tài)下，他們踢沙子、跺腳、交叉手臂、奉承，那種享有權(quán)利和擁有權(quán)力的感覺(jué)令旁觀者

10、透不過(guò)氣來(lái)，沒(méi)有人告訴他們不能這樣子。這些愛(ài)抱怨又專制的小孩們他們的父母很可能受到這些小惡人們的折磨，畢竟這是父母創(chuàng)造出來(lái)的。,PARAGRAPH 3,It is so tempting to accept the cartoon version of modern boomer parenting that it is easy to miss the passionate debate undernearth it.,承上啟下,PARAGRAPH 3,Have we gone too far? Should we negotiate with our children or just in

11、form them of the rules? Is $20 too much for lunch money? What chores should kids have to do, and which is extra credit? Can you treat them with respect without sacrificing your authority? Cheer them on without driving them too hard? Set them freebut still set limits?,The unending concern and confusi

12、on over where and how to draw the lines.,PARAGRAPH 3,接受現(xiàn)代嬰兒潮一代人的親子教育的簡(jiǎn)化版模式是如此的誘人，以至于我們?nèi)菀缀鲆暺浔澈蟮募ち覡?zhēng)論。暫且不考慮兩類極端類型的父母，即懶惰的、放任孩子的父母和聰明的、能自然做出明智選擇的父母，在中間地帶你聽(tīng)到對(duì)話是這樣的，無(wú)休止的憂慮和困惑：到底應(yīng)該在哪些方面、怎樣去來(lái)實(shí)施對(duì)孩子的管制。我們是否已經(jīng)走的太遠(yuǎn)，給予孩子們的權(quán)利已經(jīng)超過(guò)了他們所能夠控制的范圍，填塞給孩子們的東西已經(jīng)超過(guò)他們可能所需要的。我們是應(yīng)該與我們的孩子協(xié)商制定規(guī)則或只是告知他們？20美元的午餐前是不是太多了？ 孩子們應(yīng)該有什么家務(wù)

13、必須要做，還應(yīng)該給予額外的獎(jiǎng)賞嗎？你能尊重他們而不犧牲自己的權(quán)威嗎？你能為他們加油打氣而不是窮追猛打嗎？你能給他們自由而不是設(shè)置限制嗎？,PARAGRAPH 3,Tempting adj. 吸引人的；誘惑人的 v. 引誘（tempt的ing形式） Aroma Tempting 香氣誘人 Tempting Fate 誘惑人的命運(yùn) Passionate adj. 擁有（或表現(xiàn)出）強(qiáng)烈性愛(ài)的；情意綿綿的；怒不可遏的 adj. 熱誠(chéng)的；狂熱的 a passionate interest in music 對(duì)音樂(lè)的濃厚興趣 leave aside to not consider sth 不予考慮；擱置一

14、邊 A. leave sthaside Draw the lines to refuse to do sth; to set a limit 拒絕做；給定界限 A. draw the line (at sth/at doing sth) to distinguish between two closely related ideas 劃界線；區(qū)分（兩個(gè)密切相關(guān)的思想） B. draw the line (between sth and sth),語(yǔ)言知識(shí),PARAGRAPH 4,Some of these are eternal questions. （承上啟下） parents may of

15、ten get the answers wrong wrestling with these issues rebellion brewing the wobbling economy gave parents an excuse to do what they have wanted to do anyway. Reduce the childs economic expenditure,PARAGRAPH 4,在這些問(wèn)題中，有一些爭(zhēng)論是長(zhǎng)久存在的?，F(xiàn)代的父母對(duì)于以上問(wèn)題總是得到錯(cuò)誤的答案?？墒钦f(shuō)他們沒(méi)有努力去尋找答案也是錯(cuò)誤的。和父母淺談幾句你就會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)他們?cè)谕@些問(wèn)題苦苦掙扎，你不必深究就

16、會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)他們正在醞釀揭竿而起。正如如過(guò)去一年的經(jīng)濟(jì)形勢(shì)的不穩(wěn)定，使得顯著性的消費(fèi)變得有點(diǎn)不太顯眼，它也給了家長(zhǎng)一個(gè)借口，做他們想做的事：不給孩子買(mǎi)140$的膠底鞋，解雇園丁，由孩子們修剪草坪。華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)稱這種現(xiàn)象為兒童經(jīng)濟(jì)衰退：總體消費(fèi)支出比去年略有上漲，但8至24歲之間孩子的消費(fèi)支出下降了約三分之一。在華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)引用的一個(gè)11月份的調(diào)查中發(fā)現(xiàn)，12%的孩子表示他們的零用錢(qián)已經(jīng)在最近幾個(gè)月被削減，相比去年，16孩子表示接受了更少的禮物。,PARAGRAPH 4,Wrestling n. 摔跤; 扭斗，搏斗; v. 與搏斗(wrestle的現(xiàn)在分詞); 摔跤; 格斗; wreste with st

17、h 掙扎，為取得某物而努力奮斗。 Rebellion n. an attempt by some of the people in a country to change their government, using violence 謀反；叛亂；反叛 rebellion against sb/sth teenage rebellion Brew vt. 釀造; 泡，煮; 策劃，釀成; vi. 以釀造麥酒或啤酒為職業(yè); 被沖泡; 即將發(fā)生; n. 釀造的飲料; 啤酒; brew sthup Wobble vt. /n.（使）搖擺，搖晃 ; 猶豫不決；信心動(dòng)搖,語(yǔ)言知識(shí),PARAGRAPH 5

18、,This is a war waged block by block, house by house. （If it is too much to try to battle the forces of Hollywood or Madison Avenue or the Nintendo Corp, at least you can resolve that just because the kids down the street watch unlimited TV doesnt mean your kids should too. You can enforce a curfew，assign som