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III. State the idea behind the lines below and enlarge on it.

Just go the park and climb a tree | VIII. Points for discussion. | I. Define the words below and say how they were used in the article. | X. Comment on the headline of the article. | We preach baby worship but practice baby farming | IX. Points for discussion. | WHEN PARENTS ARE TOXIC TO CHILDREN | VIII. Points for discussion. | HIGH ANXIETY SCREWS UP OUR HI-TECHHEAVEN | VII. Fill in the correct preposition. Check against the article. |


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1. It’s today’s playground, all-rubber-cushioned surface where kids used to skin their knees.

2. Few take it half-easy on the perimeter benches, as parents used to do, letting the kids figure things out for themselves.

3. Consider the teacher new to an upscale suburban town.

4. He finally found the disability he was to make allowances for: difficulty with Gestalt thinking.

5. That cleverly devised defect would allow her to take all her tests untimed, especially the big one at the end of the rainbow, the college-worthy SAT.

6. Behold the wholly sanitized childhood, without skinned knees or the occasional C in history.

7. With few challenges all their own, kids are unable to forgo their creative adaptations to the normal vicissitude of life.

8. In the process, they’re robbed of identity, meaning and a sense of accomplishment, to say nothing of a shot at real happiness.

9. These turn out to be the spreading psychic fault lines of 21st-century youth.

10. It’s where intellectual and developmental tracks converge as the emotional training wheels come off.

11. It takes a variety of forms, including anxiety and depression – which are increasingly regarded as two faces of the same coin – binge drinking and substance abuse, self-mutilation and other forms of disconnection.

12. Drinking, too, has changed. Once a means of social lubrication, it has acquired a darker, more desperate nature.

13. At bottom binge-drinking is a quest for authenticity and intensity of experience.

14. Heavy drinking is an anxiety reducer and demands no social skills.

15. Talk to a college president or administrator and you’re almost certainly bound to hear tales of the parents who call at 2 am to protest Branden’s C in economics because it’s going to damage his shot at grad school.

16. Safer to lower the bar than raise the discomfort level.

17. In the hothouse that child raising has become, play is all but dead.

18. “Hi, Mom. I just got an ice-cream cone; can you believe they put sprinkles on the bottom as well as on top?”

19. Think of the cell phone as the eternal umbilicus.

20. Whenever we find ourselves faced with uncertainty or difficulty, we call on that internalized image.

21. The PFC is a critical part of the self-regulation system, and it’s deeply implicated in depression, a disorder increasingly seen as caused or maintained by unregulated thought patterns-lack of intellectual rigor, if you will.

22. Cell phones – along with the instant availability of cash and almost any consumer good your heart desires – promote fragility by weakening self-regulation.

 

IV. Translate the sentences below using the words under study:

1. Дети с «тонкой» психикой плачут не только из-за содранной коленки. 2. Соседка жалуется, что ее сын-подросток часто пьет до состояния забытья. 3. Вопреки общепринятому мнению, чрезмерное опекание ребенка чревато серьезными последствиями. 4. Родитель одного из студентов подал в суд на ректора колледжа. 5. За последние десять лет природа детских игр изменилась коренным образом. 6. Журналист утверждал, что человек, у которого он взял интервью, окончил с отличием два ВУЗа. 7. Чрезмерная родительская защита ребенка от окружающего мира способствует развитию инфантильности у подростка. 8. Хорошо, когда ребенок может сам позаботиться о себе и способен принимать здравые решения. 9. Нельзя отрицать, что требования, которые современная школа возлагает на учащегося, весьма высокие. 10. По общим подсчетам, количество психологических срывов среди подростков неуклонно растет. 11. Когда я путешествую, я все время скучаю по дому. 12. Некоторые дети обращаются к родителям даже в случае незначительной трудности. 13. Джек из кожи вон лезет, чтобы похвастаться своей новой Моторолой, поэтому он все время ее демонстративно открывает и кому-нибудь звонит. 14. Депрессия может принимать разнообразные формы. 15. Многие люди пытаются противостоять превратностям жизни. 16. И взрослые, и дети обожают мороженое в вафельных стаканчиках. 17. Охваченные тревогой родители приложили все усилия, чтобы вылечить дочь от токсикомании. 18. Когда человек твердо идет к намеченной цели, он ее добивается.

V. Scan the article for different equivalents of “чрезмерно опекать”, “родительская опека”.

VI. Points for discussion:

1. What did the author have in mind by giving the article such a title?

2. Why are parents and schools no longer geared toward child development?

3. Is psychological distress rampant on college campuses indeed?

4. What kind of anxiety has overtaken colleges recently?

5. What do kids do to shake off stress? How do parents and colleges respond to it?

6. What does the author mean by the commercialization of children’s play?

7. Why do adults increasingly interfere in child’s play or supervise it?

8. Is the author for or against children’s using cell-phones?

9. What is, in the author’s opinion, parents’ overmonitoring and oversheltering of children fraught with?

10. Do you share the author’s stand on the problem?

 


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