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歌手名：新概念第四册
歌曲名：34
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Lesson 34 Adolescence
First listen and then answer the following question.
What do adolescents respect in parents?
Parents are often upset when their children
praise the homes of their friends
and regard it as a slur on their own cooking,
or cleaning, or furniture
and often are foolish enough to let the adolescents
see that they are annoyed. They may even accuse them of
disloyalty, or make some spiteful remark
about the frie-nds＇parents.
Such a loss of dignity and de-scent
into childish behaviour on the part of the adults
deeply shocks the adolescents,
and makes them resolve that in future
they will not talk to their parents about the places
or people they visit.
Before very long the parents will be complaining
that the child is so secretive and never tells them anything,
but they seldom realize that they have
brought this on themselves.
Disillusionment with the paren-ts, however good
and adequate they may be both as parents and as individuals,
is to some degr-ee inevitable.
Most children have such a high ideal of their parents,
unless the pare-nts themselves have been unsatisfactory,
that it can hardly hope to stand up
to a realistic evaluation..
Parents would be greatly surpris-ed
and deeply touch-ed if they rea-lized
how much belief their children usually have
in their charac-ter and infallibility,
and how much this faith means to a child.
If parents were prepared for this adolescent reaction,
and realized that it was a sign
that the child was growing up and developing valuable powers
of observation and independent judgment,
they would not be so hurt,
and therefore would not drive the child into opposition
by resenting and resisting it.
The adolescent,with his passion for sincerity,
always respects a parent who admits that he is wrong,
or ignorant, or even that he has been unfair or unjust.
What the child cannot forgive
is the parents＇refusal to a admit these charges
if the child knows them to be true.
Victorian parents believed that they kept their dignity
by retreating behind an unreasoning
authoritarian attitude;
in fact they did nothing of the kind,
but children were then too cowed to let them know
how they really felt.
Today we tend to go to the other extreme,
but on the whole this is a healthier attitude
both for the child and the parent.It is always wiser
and safer to face up to rea-lity,
however painful it may be at the moment.