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London-life for Cathy Hagner and her three children is very tiring.
Their 1 school day and her job as a lawyer's assistant are busy enough. 2 Hagner also has to take the two boys to soccer or hockey or basketball while dropping off her 3 at piano lessons or Girl Scout Club.
4 , the exhausted （筋疲力尽的） family doesn't get home until 7 p. m. . There is just time for a quick 5 before homework.
In today's world , middle-class American and British parents treat their children 6 they were competitors 7 for some finishing line.
Parents take their children from activity to activity to make their future 8 . It seems that raising a man much cleverer than anyone else had become a more 9 goal than raising a happy and well-balanced child.
“ 10 across the country are reporting a growing number of children 11 from stomachaches and headaches 12 exhaustion and pressures” says child expert William Doherty of the University of Minnesota.
Teachers are 13 exhausted kids in the classroom. It's a very serious problem. Many children attend 14 clubs necessity. But competitive pressures also 15 an explosion of activities. They 16 sports, language, music and maths classes for children as 17 as four.
“There is a new trend （趋势） among many parents. You have to tap all of your child's ability at a young age. 18 you will let them down , ” says Terry Apter, a Cambridge-based child and adolescent psychiatrist （青少年精神病专家）.
“It isn't entirely 19 : there have always been such parents. But what was seen as strange behaviour before is now well 20 .”
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