【推荐1】Most students do not enjoy doing housework. Some of them think that cleaning the bathroom or cooking dinner for the family is boring. However, if you try the following ways, you will find that housework is not as boring as you think.

You should learn to do small things, for example, you can do the dishes, sweep the floor or make the bed. Part of growing up is to be able to take care of yourself. Doing some small things around the house shows that you are becoming responsible (有责任感的).

In fact, it’s too tiring for one person to do all the housework alone. It’s good to divide housework into different parts. All the family members (成员) will do the housework together. Dividing housework among all the family members will make everyone’s job much easier.

Cooking is one part of housework. Cooking can be very funny if you put your heart into it. If you learn how to cook your favorite food, you will also get a feeling of satisfaction.

【推荐2】Many parents make their children do chores around the house. For some families, teaching children what to do and how to do chores is easy. But in other families, getting children to do some housework can be a very big problem.

It is a good idea for parents to teach their children at an early age. All family members must work together to make the house clean, and each person must do his or her share(份) of the work. We can do this by starting plan of chores andresponsibilitieswhen children are young.

Chores are good for children even very young ones. Doing chores can teach children many important skills(技能) like working together. Jobs also teach children what is fair(公平). The skills and value(价值) from doing chores will be good to children all their lives.

【推荐1】Children’s games in ancient China

During ancient times, children didn’t have smart phones, iPads or computers to entertain them. Instead, they came up with interesting games to play in their childhood. Let’s take a look.

【推荐2】Nowadays playing games online is very common, especially among young people and teenagers.

However. spending too much time playing online game can have very bad effects on human beings, such as eye sore, back pain and headache. Is there a healthy, funny and practical game?

Yes! There it is!

Brain Box World

Play together Learn together

【推荐3】Do you know how to play a game called “Musical Chairs”? It is easy to play and most people enjoy it. All you need are some chairs, some people and some ways of making music. You may use a piano, a phone or a computer to play music.

Put the chairs in a circle. Each chair faces different directions (方向). And players should stand far from the chairs. A person plays the music. He or she cannot see the people in the game.

When the music starts, the players walk around the chairs. Everyone goes in the same direction, and they should keep walking to the music.

When the music stops, the players try to sit on the chairs. If a person cannot find a chair to sit on, he or she fails (失败) and has to be out of the game. Then, you should take away one chair.

At last, there will be two players and one chair. Only one of them can sit on the chair and he or she will be the winner.

【推荐1】It is Sunday today. Mary goes shopping with her mother. She wants her mother to buy her a new sweater. In a shop, she finds a blue sweater. She tries it on. It’s too small. She wants a big one, but the big one is not blue. Mary doesn’t like other (其他) colors. “Let’s go to another shop to have a look!” her mother says. Then they go to another shop. It is big and there are many kinds of sweaters in different colors and sizes (尺码). Mary tries on a blue one. It looks nice on her. So they take it for forty-eight yuan.

【推荐2】Peter wondered why he didn’t have many friends. The reason was that he was always taking, never giving.

One day Peter told Bill, “I’d like to give a party on Saturday. I’d like you to come and bring Martha, too.” “Thanks, Peter. We’d be happy to come.” “Maybe you’d like to bring your violin. You and Martha sing well together. I’m sure everyone will want you to sing for us.” That was how Peter began to plan his party. Next he asked another friend, Betty, to bring a cake. “You make the best cake in the world, Betty, and I like to eat your cake better than have one from the bakery.” Peter invited a few other friends to come to his party. He didn’t forget to ask something from each one of them. He even asked Jim and Mary Jackson to let him give the party at their house! They agreed.

The party was a big success. However, as the guests were leaving, they said “Thank you” to Bill and Martha for the music, Betty for the cake, the Jacksons for the use of the house and to others for their hard work. To Peter they just said, “Thanks for the invitation.”

【推荐1】My mother had only one eye. I never wanted her to show up at my school.

One day during primary school, I was terribly ill. My mother came.

“Your mother only has one eye!” yelled some of my classmates. I wished my mother would have just disappeared(消失).

“If you embarrass me, why don’t you just die?” I shouted at her, taking no notice of the sad look on her face. My mother just handed me some medicine and left without saying anything.

At that time, I didn’t think I had hurt her feelings very much. That night I saw my mom crying in her room. Even so, I hated her tears from one eye. I made a decision: I must study hard and leave my mother.

Years later, my dream came true. I was quite successful. I never thought of going back to see my “ugly” mother until one day I got a letter.

“My son, I’m sorry I only have one eye. When you were little, you got into an accident and lost your eye. As a mom, I couldn’t stand watching you live with only one eye. So I gave you mine. I was never angry with you and I never regretted it because I love you.”

I cried out aloud. Only then did I realize how beautiful my mother was!

【推荐2】What do you do in a situation like this? You’re calling dinner with friends at a nice restaurant. You’re having a great time when a phone rings at the table next to you. A man takes out his phone and starts talking loudly about problems he’s having with his girlfriend. He talks for almost ten minutes! This happens all the time-on buses, in restaurants, everywhere!

Many people find cell phones useful in their daily lives. But we’ve all sat next to someone talking too loudly on a cell phone. You may want to tell the loudmouth to end the conversation, but let the management take care of those noisy customers. You can only control your own behavior. Here are a few rules:

Off means off! Follow the rules of restaurants and other public places. If a sign says “turn off cell phones”, don’t use your phone. If you are allowed, speak softly and for a short time and try to move away form other people.

Lights off, phone off! Never make calls in a theater or at the movies.

Pay attention! Talking on a cell phone while driving is dangerous. And watch where you’re going when you’re walking down the streets and talking on the phone.

As more people use cell phones, things are only going to get worse. So, the next time you’re getting ready to make a call, stop and consider the people around you.

【推荐3】Long long ago, there was a blacksmith(铁匠). He was always unhappy with his life. “My work is too hot. I want to be a stone(石头) on the mountain. There it must be cool.” A wise man(智者) answered, “Go, be a stone.” So he became a stone. A moment later, a stone-cutter came and began to cut it.

The stone cried out, “This hurts(疼)! I want to be the sun. That would be great.”

The wise man said, “Be the sun.” And he became the sun. But the sun was much hotter than the blacksmith and the stone, so he said, “I would like to be the moon.”

The wise man said again, “Be the moon.” And he became the moon. “This is hotter than being the sun,” he said. “I want to be a blacksmith again. That is the best life.”

But the wise man said, “I am tired of your changing. You will be the moon forever(永远).”