【推荐1】People think that even less than 2-year-old children can help with chores. _______ parents say to those children, “Just look at the paper on the floor,” they will pick it up.

Some parents think childhood is just for playing, so they don’t ask their children to do chores. Other parents say, “I know it’s not _______, but it’s quicker to do it by myself!” However, most parents believe that doing chores is a way of teaching kids responsibility (责任心). Doing chores helps _______ children’s independence (独立). Children learn to help, share and care about _______ by doing chores. And they can _______ the importance of working hard. Things like _______ a pet or a baby and helping make meals are some examples of helping others.

Here are some reasons for doing chores:

1. To learn responsibility: Most people _______ that doing chores is good for kids.

2. To share the workload (工作负担): Kids who can help to clean won’t make big _______.

3. To learn skills: Kids will learn _______ to cook, clean and do other things in the house.

Doing chores is good. Anyway, it is also a kind of ________. So start to help your parents with the chores. You will learn a lot by doing them.

【推荐2】Last month we bought our two- year-old daughter a little ________________ There were few children of her age where we ________________ and we thought a dog would make her less ________________. We were right. They played together   ________________ all day. Our daughter now smiles and laughs a lot more than before. In this way it was like having two ________________ in the house. Both of them are very dirty and they ________________ when they do not get what they want. The dog is ________________ to look after than my daughter-he always ________________ all his food and we don't have many dirty clothes to ________________ My wife is also very happy because I have given up _________________. The dog doesn't like the smell.

In China, very few children make pocket money. ________, in western countries, most kids make pocket money by themselves. They make money in many different ________.

When kids are very young, their parents help them sell the fruits of their own trees to neighbors. Kids may also help ________ do housework to make money at home. When they ________ sixteen, they can make money by sending newspapers or by working in fast food restaurants, ________ during the summer holidays.

There are many ________ of making pocket money by kids themselves. First of all, they learn the value of money by ________ hard so that they will not waste any. Secondly, they learn to ________ money to buy things they need or want, such as books, pencils, movies and even clothes they like. Thirdly, they ________ deal with the daily life problems by helping their parents or others. Making pocket money is ________ for children when they grow up. That is why parents encourage their kids to make pocket money.