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Is Your Nest Too Full?
By John Casey
While many middle-aged couples are dealing with the (1) … syndrome, others have the opposite problem – their elderly parents and children live at home, – called the (2) … syndrome. As many of us reach middle age, we are (3) … a double dilemma: caring for young children and ageing parents at the same time, which makes us (4) … a serious bind. Add to that the stress of (5) …, and many in (6) …, i.e. the generation-between-generations, (7) … with the stress of an overfilled life. But that living arrangement was born of necessity.
“A lot of families (8) … to live that way in the past because they had to,” says Anna Beth Benningfield, PhD, clinical director of the Family Therapy Program at Virginia State University. “In other cultures, it is (9) …. Even in Europe, they think we’re crazy for expecting 18-year-olds to support an (10) ….”
Even though many Americans (11) … the multigenerational living, Benningfield says the situation can adopt a (12) …. Here are some tips to help pass through a (13) ….
1. Care for Yourself. You can’t (14) … of other people if you are tired and irritable. If your role in the family makes you (15) …, make sure you get to a therapist.
2. Set Rules. To (16) …, make a list of all the chores that need to be dome and assign them to individuals. “To be on (17) …, any plan should be reassessed every 60 days,” says Benningfield. “That way people don’t feel trapped and can (18) … at a fresh activity.”
3. Weekly Family Meetings are one way to make sure everyone (19) … in the household. Attendance should be mandatory. “If families can talk about the things that they see as working or (20) …, then they can (21) … resolving differences quickly,” says Benningfield. “Try to view children and parents living with you as a (22) …, a chance to get to know your family in a way you haven’t known them before.”
Ex. 4. Read the following text and decide which option (A, B or C) fits each gap.
Bit of a Crowd in the Empty Nest
They are the Boomerang Generation, and they cost their parents (1) …. Another term used to describe this phenomenon is Kippers – an acronym for Kids in Parents’ Pockets (2) … Retirement Savings. Although an (3) … survey found that nearly two-thirds of people said they could cover the extra (4) … of feeding a grown-up child or elderly parent moved (5) … in with them, only 54 per cent thought they could face up to the (6) … household bills. And once children or parents have come back, they say they would be unable to make a (7) … of it.
Richard Brown, marketing manager of Birmingham Midshires, said: “In the long (8) …, adults are not well placed to pay for the (9) … of an ageing population or to be financially supportive (10) … children. Low levels of personal savings, (11) … with the (12) … cost of care for the elderly, appear to be the root causes for the (13) … which ‘boomerang’ families across the country are (14) … down with.”
The Guardian
A B C
1) dearly dear darling
2) erasing eradicating eroding
3) in-depth in-case in-posse
4) cost fee rate
5) together up back
6) shrinking soaring sagging
7) go start move
8) go move run
9) upsurge upkeep uplift
10) to of for
11) paired coupled twinned
12) surging scanting scourging
13) quibbles quarries quandaries
14) bagged bugged bogged
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