3. Say: agree or disagree. Explain your point of view.

1. Parents are too permissive with their children nowadays.

2. The child’s happiness is all-important, the psychologists say.

3. Certainly a child needs love … and a lot of it.

4. Children are hardly creatures.

5. Psychologists have succeeded in undermining parents’ confidence in their own authority.

4. Pay attention to underlined words and phrases. Write them down.

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Vocabulary

Love – любовь

Security – безопасность надежность уверенность

Care – забота

Affection – привязанность

Respect – уважение

Patience – терпение

Reassurance – утешение

Happy home backgrounds – хорошая обстановка в семье

Responsible adults – ответственные взрослые

Not to feel neglected – не чувствовать себя пренебрегаемым

To be sensitive to one’s feelings – остро реагировать на чьи-либо чувства

To be too wise to argue – быть слишком мудрым чтобы спорить

To speak firmly – говорить решительно

To be consistent – быть последовательным

To be fair – быть справедливым

To have no favourites – не иметь любимчиков

To show much patience – быть очень терпеливым

4. What solution can you offer for the following problems?

1. To the average child his parents are kill-joys. They are always saying “No”. No getting dirty, no jumping on the sofa, no running around naked, no hitting the little sister.

2. Much more that a direct rebuke, sarcasm infuriates children. It makes them completely irrational and they direct all their energies to planning counter-attacks. They will be completely preoccupied with revenge fantasies. Sarcasm not only serves to deflate a child’s standing in his own eyes but in the eyes of his friends as well.

3. I don’t like James to play with Paul next door. Paul uses very bad language, and James will pick it up. But Paul is James’s best friend and he sneaks out and sees him very often. So I lock him up in the bathroom as a punishment. Sometimes I deliberately don’t speak to him for hours on end.

Teachers

4. In Pairs, discuss the questions below.

1. What was your favourite teacher at primary school?

2. What can you remember about him/her?

3. Why did you like him/her?

4. Read the text and answer these questions.

1. What kind of pupil was Graham?

2. How did Mr Jenkins help him?

3. What did Mr Jenkins think about Graham?

4. How does he feel about Graham now?

5. Why does Mr Jenkins love teaching?