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Many parents now enroll their child in prestigious nursery schools as soon as the pregnancy isconfirmed. And once the child is old enough, they coach the child for the screening interview."When they count everything in sight, one nursery school director said, "you know they have been drilled before the interview."Parents believe that only if the child gets into this or thatprestigious nursery school will he or she ever have a chance at getting into Harvard, Yale, or Stanford. For the same reason, our elementary schools are suddenly filled with youngsters in enriched and accelerated programs.
懷孕一經證實，現在的許多父母就會在幾所赫赫有名的幼兒園給孩子先報上名。一旦孩子稍大一點，他們就給孩子做篩選面試的指導。一位幼兒園的園長說當孩子們給眼前的東西數數時，你就知道他們在面試前已受過訓練。”父母們認為，除非孩子進了這所或那所有名的幼兒園，否則將來就決不會有機會進哈佛、耶魯或斯坦福大學。由于同樣的原因，我們的小學也突然充滿了進強化班和快班的孩子。
It is not just in academic study that children are being pushed harder at ever-earlier ages. Some parents start their preschool children in sports such as tennis and swimming in hopes that they will become Olympic athletes. A young man who attended one of my child development lectures stopped by afterward to ask me a question. He works as a tennis instructor at an exclusive resort hotel in Florida and wanted to know how to motivate his students. When I asked how old they were he told me that they ranged in age from three to five years!
孩子們在越來越小的年齡就受到越來越緊的逼迫，這種情況不僅限于學習方面。有些父母還讓他們的學齡前子女開始從事體育訓練，如打網球，練游泳，希望他們能成為奧運會選手。一位聽我兒童成長講座的年輕人課后留下來問了我一個問題。他在佛羅里達州一家旅游勝地的豪華賓館里擔任網球教練，他想知道如何才能激發學員的學習興趣。當我問他他們多大時，他告訴我他們的年齡在三至五歲之間！
