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The Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Some parents send their children to the best schools or even to England, the US or Australia, though this costs too much. Many also want their children to learn a musical instrument or ballet that will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is, so parents often spend a large amount of money on education. Even poor couples buy a computer for their son or daughter.

However, what most parents fail to see is that the best education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents can see that their children’s skills vary (变化); they will usually be skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s children don’t believe in themselves.

The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study effectively. They are not teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever.

Parents can help achieve this by teaching their children practical skills like cooking, sewing and other housework.

Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. The result, a well-cooked dinner, will give a child a lot of pleasure and confidence.

An old machine such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child as a toy may make him curious and interested. If he will spend hours looking at it, and try to repair it; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. Such activities do more than teach a child to read a book; but they teach them to think, and to use their minds. This is much more important than learning by reading a book.

Title: How Chinese Parents Should1. their Children
Common practice	◆ Being 2. with money when it comes to education. ◆ Sending them to the best3.__________ or abroad. ◆ Taking extra-curriculum activities to have a head start in life. ◆4.__________ more money than they can afford on education.
5.________ results	◆ Children will be lack (缺少) of confidence.
6. _____	◆ Teaching their children practical skills, which are of the greatest7._____ .	Cooking.
Sewing.
Other8.___________ .
Repairing a broken radio or TV.
Good results	◆ To make the children hard-working, 9. ____and confident. ◆ To enable(使---能够)them to 10. ___ and to use their minds.

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