The jobs of the future have not yet been invented. 【小题1】 By helping them develop classic skills that will serve them well no matter what the future holds.

1. Curiosity

Your children need to be deeply curious. 【小题2】 Ask kids, “What ingredients (配料) can we add to make these pancakes even better next time?” and then try them out. Did those ingredients make the pancakes better? What could we try next time?

2. Creativity

True creativity is the ability to take something existing and create something new from it. 【小题3】 There are a dozen different things you can do with them. Experimenting with materials to create something new can go a long way in helping them develop their creativity.

3. Interpersonal Skills

Understanding how others feel can be a challenge for kids. We know what’s going on inside our own head, but what about others? Being able to read people helps kids from misreading a situation and jumping to false conclusions. 【小题4】 “Why do you think she’s crying?” “Can you tell how that man is feeling by looking at his face? If someone were to do that to you, how would you feel?”

4. Self-expression

【小题5】 There are many ways to express thoughts and ideas — music, acting, drawing, building, photography. You may find that your child is attracted by one more than another.

There are several difference between high schools in the USA and high schools in the China. For one thing, students who study in the USA are in class only about twenty hours per week. The rest of the time which they spend at school are used for independent study. With so many free time, students who do not make good use their time may not pass the exams. For one thing, many courses are classes which students can study just for funny, and which they do not have to take. Final, students can often choose their classes and class times. Some courses are required, and students can still decide the teacher who class they wish to take. They can choose to take the class of a teacher who they like or respect.

   Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers. Then again, teenagers have_____feelings about their parents, saying that it is not easy living with them. According to a recent research, the most common ___between parents and teenagers is that regarding untidiness and daily routine tasks. On the one hand, parents go mad over ___rooms, clothes thrown on the floor and their children’s refusal to help with the ___. On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame them for ___the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room or refusing to do the shopping at the supermarket.

The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different ___to these problems. However, some approaches are more ___than others. For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but ___clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children’s ___. On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the ____of their actions can do better. For example, when teenagers who don’t help their parents with the shopping don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator, they are forced to ____their actions.

Psychologists say that ____is the most important thing in parent-child relationships. Parents should ____to their children but at the same time they should lend an ear to what they have to say. Parents may ____their children when they are untidy but they should also understand that their room is their own private space. Communication is a two-way process. It is only by listening to and ____each other that problems between parents and children can be settled.

   Parents whose children show a special interest in a particular sport have a difficult decision to make about their children’s careers. Should they allow their children to train to become top sportsmen or sportswomen? For many children it means starting very young and school work, going out with friends and other interests have to take second place.

It’s very difficult to explain to a young child why he or she has to train for five hours a day, even at the weekend, when most of his or her friends are playing. Another problem is of course money. In many countries money for training is allocated from the government for the very best young sportsmen or sportswomen. If this help cannot be given, it means that it is the parents who have to find the time and the money to support their child’s development, and sports clothes, transport to competitions, special equipment, etc. can be very expensive.

Many parents are understandably worried that it is dangerous to start serious training in a sport at an early age. Doctors agree that young muscles may be damaged by training before they are properly developed. Professional trainers, however, believe that it is only by starting young that you can reach the top as a successful sportsperson. What is clear is that very few people do reach the top and both parents and children should be prepared for failure even after many years of training.