Love and Help Children

Today's children will become tomorrow's civilization. Bringing a child into the world today is a little bit like dropping one into a tiger's cage. Children can't handle their environment and they have no real resources. They heed love and help to make it.

It is a delicate problem to discuss. There are almost as many theories on how to raise a child or not raise him as there are parents. Some try to raise children the way they were themselves raised, others attempt to exact opposite, many hold to an idea that children should just be let grow on their own. None of these guarantee success.

A child is a little bit like a blank slate. If you write the wrong things on it, it will say the wrong things. But, unlike a slate, a child can begin to do the writing; the child tends to write what has been written already. The problem is complicated by the fact that, while most children are capable of great decency, a few are born insane and today, some are even born as drug addicts: but such cases are an unusual few.

It does no good just to try to "buy" the child with an overwhelm of toys and possessions or to smother and protect the child: the result can be pretty awful.

One has to make up his mind what he is trying to get the child to become. This is modified by several things: a) what the child basically can become due to inherent make-up and potential; b) what the child, himself really wants to become; c) what one wants the child to become; d) the resources available.

Whatever is one's affection for the child, remember that the child cannot survive well in the long run if he or she does not Have his or her feet put on the way to survival. It will be no accident if the child goes wrong: the contemporary society is tailor-made for a child's failure.

It will help enormously if you obtain a child's understanding. What does have a workability is simply to try to be the child's friend. Try to find out what a child's problem really is and without crushing their own solutions, try to help solve them.

Observe them — and this applies even to babies. Listen to what children tell you about their lives.

It will help the child enormously if you obtain understanding, of and agreement to this way to happiness and get him or her to follow it.

Ex. 1. Discuss your point of view on the problem of bringing up children with the groupmates. What is an ideal way of bringing up to your mind? What are the main reasons for the conflicts between different generations?

Ex. 2. Solve the problems and make dialogues based on them.

1. Your daughter is well-educated person, she likes her job greatly and think that her baby will have it fine in the kindergarten. She informs you that she is going to start working in half a year after her baby’s birth. What is your reaction?

2. Your son/daughter is in his/her first year at university. S(he) wants to go away for the weekend? Would you permit him/her?

3. Your graduate son (daughter) came home after an interview with employer. S(he) says that they need a person with higher education and with experience (at least one year). What would you say?

4. Your friend has been seeking for job for almost a year but without any result. What would you advise him/her?

5. Your parents are going to divorce. What would you do? Would you try to prevent it?

Ex. 3. Write about your own family or about family structure and tasks standing before it in some other countries.

Read the passage about Age Discrimination in the Work Place.

“Discrimination on the basis of age is a pressing problem in business today. Age discrimination is the fastest-growing discrimination complaint in the work place. In 1986, almost twenty-seven thousand age-discrimination complaints were filed with federal and state agencies - more than twice the number filed in 1980.

Although many age-discrimination cases never reach court (only about one in five do), the rapid increase in the number of complaints has many businesspeople worried.

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act and its amendments should not be interpreted to mean that young and older workers cannot be fired for unproductivity. Businesses should keep in mind, however, that decisions to hire and fire must be based on ability, not on age. Employers need to evaluate individual employees' ability to carry out job duties, not rely on arbitrary age limits.

Many lawyers believe that the current rush of age-discrimination suits is nothing compared to what is going to happen by the year 2010, when workers over age 40 who are protected by age-discrimination laws will make up half of the work force. Others believe that older people with medical handicaps will be increasingly inclined to file suit. It is likely that companies will need to examine their personnel practices continuously, and make changes on an ongoing basis to avoid age-discrimination.”

Ex. 1. Answer the following questions:

1. Have you or your friends faced such a problem in the work place?

2. What do you know about ageism?

3. It is 2012 now. Have the situation really changed?

4. What should employers keep in mind while recruiting new employee?

5. Some companies prefer to hire young people without any

experience and train new employees themselves. Is it productive?

Ex. 2. Read suggested to you text and give synonyms for the words and

expressions in it:

-alcoholic drinks;

- fizzy drinks;

- drunk;

- very drunk;

- expensive.

Ex. 3. Answer the following questions based on the given to you text.

1. What is alcohol? Do you know any types of it?

2. How does it influence on your body?

3. What does the law say?

4. What is the “Temperance movement”?

5. What is the purpose of distillation?

6. Does fool proof hangover cure exist?

7. What do you know about long-term damage?

8. What are the recommended limits of alcohol consumption?

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