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2013年教育部考试中心考研英语模拟试题 阅读理解部分汇编 七、儿童的教育 Not long after the telephone was invented, I assume, a call was placed. The caller was a parent saying, Your child is bullying my child, and I want it stopped! the bullys parent replied, You must have the wrong number. My child is a little angel. A trillion phone calls later, the conversation is the same. When children are teased or tyrannized, the parental impulse is to grab the phone and rant. But these days, as studies in the U.S.show bullying on the rise and parental supervision on the decline, researchers who study bullying say that calling moms and dads is more futile than ever. Such calls often lead to playground recriminations and dont really teach our kids any lessons about how to navigate the world and resolve conflicts. When you call parents, you want them to extract the cruelty from their bullying children, says Laura Kavesh, a child psychologist in Evanston, Illinois. But many parents are blown away by the idea of their child being cruel. They wont believe it. In a recent police-department survey in Oak Harbor, Washington, 89% of local high school students said they had engaged in bullying behavior. Yet only 18% of parents thought their children would act as bullies. In a new U.S.PTA survey, 5% of parents support contacting other parents to deal with bullying. But many educators warn that those conversations can be misinterpreted, causing tempers to flare. Instead, they say, parents should get objective outsiders, like principals, to mediate. | 
