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Many start to despair for the kids these days, who seem “not to get themselves into enough trouble.” Previously, kids going off to college used to be reminded to call their parents for at least once a month, leaving their parents worrying about what they were doing. However, there is something truly terrifying about a generation of younger people that craves more adult intervention into their lives. In fact, the number of kids who seek to be tethered to their parents, and don’t seem to know what to do unless Mom or Dad is hovering nearby is rocketing. Their parents are the ones who do it to them, hovering over them every spare minute—and in those rare moments when they have some time off from the endless commute between soccer practice and enrichment activities, calling the cops on anyone who leaves an 11-year-old outside to play basketball for an hour, so that their parents will have to hover too.All this helicoptering is supposed to help the kids. And yet, raising kids who have never experienced a serious setback is not really helping them. Having succumbed to a combination of safety fears, a college admissions arms race, and perhaps parents’ own needy ego, parents’ sense of what is “best” for our kids is completely out of whack. All this protection is making kids more mentally fragile. Hovering robs kids of “self-efficacy”: the sense that they themselves are capable of producing the outcomes they want. They’re used to functioning as closely supervised extensions of their parents, not autonomous adults.It may probably get kids through college, but it cannot get them through life. Eventually, life is going to wham them with the reality stick, no matter how assiduously parents strive to protect their kids from it. The way to assure that the blow is not fatal is not to step between them and what’s coming, but by letting go of them earlier. Childhood should be the time when it’s okay to fall down, because there’s someone around who can set limits to make sure you don’t do anything too dangerous, and help you fix it if things go wrong.The movement for free-range parenting is a good start toward building a better childhood for kids. But it probably won’t succeed without rethinking a lot of broader trends, from legal liability to our hypertrophied education system, that have gone into constructing the Nerf universe. Based on several studies, researchers thought there might be something positive about helicopter parenting, but they haven’t yet found it. After all, stepping in and doing for a child what the child developmentally should be doing for him or herself, is negative.
What is the best title for this passage?
(A) Helicopter Parents Are Sabotaging Their Child’s Growth
(B) The Pros and Cons of Helicopter Parenting
(C) Helicopter Parenting Does More Good than Harm
(D) Helicopter Parents Who Take Extreme Approaches

參考答案

答案：A
難度：簡單0.722222
統計：A(13),B(2),C(2),D(1),E(0)

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