“If you don’t believe, I’ll call the police.” is a lie that parents might use to get their young children to behave. A new psychological（心理学的）study led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore suggests that it has a relationship with harmful results when the children become adults.
The research team asked 379 Singaporean young adults whether their parents lied to them when they were children, how much they lie to their parents as adults, and how well they deal with adulthood challenges.
The first questionnaire（问卷）asked these young adults to recall（回忆）if their parents told them lies about eating, leaving or staying, spending money and so on. Some examples of such lies are “If you don’t come with me now, I will leave you here by yourself and “I don’t bring money with me today, we can come back another day”. Most of them filled in “Yes”. The second questionnaire included questions that could show how often they lie to their parents when they become adults. Adults who were lied to as children were more likely to lie to their parents when they grow up. They also said it was much more difficult for them when meeting psychological and social challenges.
Lead author Setoh Peipei from NTU Singapore’s School of Social Sciences said, “Parenting by lying can seem to save time, especially when the real reasons behind why parents want children to do something are difficult to explain. When parents tell children that honesty is the best rule, but display dishonesty by lying, such behavior can send wrong messages to their children. Parents’ dishonesty may finally destroy trust and encourage dishonesty in children.”
Our research suggests that parenting by lying is a practice that has negative influence on children when they grow up. Parents should understand these possible risks and think of other ways to replace lying, such as knowing children’s feelings, giving specific information so children know what to expect, offering choices and solving problems together, to encourage children to have good behavior, said lead author Setoh Peipei.
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| Introduction | Parents’ using lies to make their children behave will |
| Questionnaires to 379 young adults | Asked them to recall if their parents told them lies. Asked about the frequency of Asked about their psychosocial problems. |
| Results | They faced greater difficulty when meeting psychological and social challenges. Some guests are with the sound proofing（隔音）and the dirty house. |
| Opinions | It’s hard to explain the reasons why parents lie to their children. |
| Parents should understand these possible risks and use correct ways instead of lying during parenting. Otherwise, trust between them would disappear and children would certainly learn dishonesty from them. | |
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Why are blogs so popular? | ★ The number of the Internet users is ★ They are easy to use and cost nothing. |
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2. How many meals had users of Too Good To Go donated by the end of August?
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According to the new standard, there are three kinds of labor tasks (任务). The first is everyday chores, including cleaning, organizing, cooking, and using home appliances (家电). Next is productive labor (生产劳动), including agriculture, making traditional handicrafts (手工), and using new technologies like 3D printing. The third kind is service work, including volunteer work.
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| I grew up in the countryside. I learned to cook at around 10 years old. It helped me learn practical life skills. Thanks to my cooking skill, I live better during the COVID-19. Besides, I did a lot of farm work in my childhood. I got to know how to plant vegetables. Though it was hard work, the experience taught me things that many of students of my age still don’t know. Some might say we can learn these things from text-books But we can’t watch plants grow directly (直接地). —Lei Ding |
Now, Internet users have been widely discussing on social media. Many welcome such courses and say it is necessary to teach young students basic life skills. Some hope to learn such skills.
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| Requirements (要求) on middle school students 1.Cook three or four dishes by yourself. 2.Take part in local productive labor like planting and fishing. 3.Learn to repair (修理) some home appliances. 4.Learn how to make one or two works at home. |
2. How often do students in primary and middle schools have classes on labor skills?
3. What is the meaning of “labor week”?
4. Please complete (完成) “▲” in Chart I.
5. What could Lei Ding do in his childhood?
6. What can you do according to Chart Ⅲ? What do you think of it or them?
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Primary school students  ★Wash socks and shoes. ★Learn to peel (除掉……的皮)fruits and vegetables. ★Do house cleaning and classrooms cleaning. ★Cook two or three common dishes, like fried eggs with tomatoes and learn to make a nutritional recipe (营养食谱). ★Plant vegetables and keep one or two kinds of animals. |
Middle school students ★Cook three or four dishes independently. ★Take part in local productive labor like potting plants (盆栽) and fishing. ★Learn to repair some home appliances. ★Learn to make one or two kinds of traditional art works by hand. ★Get some experience in farming and take part in some volunteer work. |
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2. How long is the practical course every week?
It’s
3. Which word means “电器” in the chart?
It is
4. How many basic practical skills should a fourth-grader learn?
The fourth-grader should learn
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I will
