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Read the text below. Choose the alternative which better describes the main idea of the text:

When did the central aim of parenting become

preparing children for success? This reigning

paradigm, which dictates that every act of nurturing

be judged on the basis of whether it will usher a child

toward a life of accomplishment or failure, embodies

the fundamental insecurity of global capitalist culture,

with its unbending fixation on prosperity and the

future. When each nurturing act is administered

with the distant future in mind, what becomes of the

present? A child who soaks in the ambient anxiety that

surrounds each trivial choice or activity is an anxious

child, formed in the hand-wringing, future-focused

image of her anxious parents.

“How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the

Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for

Success” seems to lie at the precise crossroads of this

inherently conflicted approach. Like so many others,

Julie Lythcott-Haims has identified overparenting as a

trap. But once you escape the trap, the goal remains

the same: to mold your offspring into thriving adults.

Whether a child is learning to ride a bike or doing his

own laundry, he is still viewed through the limited

binary lens of either triumphant or fumbling adulthood.

The looming question is not “Is my child happy?” but

“Is my child a future president poised to save the

environment, or a future stoner poised to watch his

fifth episode of ‘House of Cards’ in a row?”

Lythcott-Haims, who brings some authority to

the subject as Stanford’s former dean of freshmen

and undergraduate advising, has seen varieties of

extreme parental interference suggesting not just

a lack of common sense, but a lack of wisdom and

healthy boundaries (if not personal dignity) as well.

Instead of allowing kids to experiment and learn

from their mistakes, parents hover where they’re

not wanted or welcome, accompanying children on

school trips or shadowing them on campus. Caught

up in what the author calls the “college admissions

arms race,” parents treat securing their children a

spot at one of 20 top schools (as decreed by U.S.

News and World Report’s popular but somewhat

dubious rankings) as an all-or-nothing proposition.

Concerned about the effects of a flawed high school

transcript, parents do their children’s homework, write

or heavily edit their papers, fire questions at teachers,

dispute grades and hire expensive subject tutors,

SAT coaches and “private admissions consultants”

(26 percent of college applicants reported hiring these

in 2013). Even after kids graduate, the madness

continues. Lythcott-Haims offers anecdotes of parents

touring graduate schools, serving as mouthpieces for

their shy, passive children, and submitting résumés

to potential employers, sometimes without their

children’s knowledge. These behaviors do more

than mold kids into dependent beings, she argues;

they corral and constrict their possibilities and their

imaginations. “We speak of dreams as boundless,

limitless realms,” Lythcott-Haims writes. “But in reality

often we create parameters, conditions and limits

within which our kids are permitted to dream — with

a checklisted childhood as the path to achievement.”

Lythcott-Haims takes pains to demonstrate that

overparenting doesn’t merely threaten a child’s future

income; it also does enormous psychological harm.

She cites a 2011 study by sociologists at the University

of Tennessee at Chattanooga that found a correlation,

in college-student questionnaires, between helicopter

parenting and medication for anxiety or depression.

One researcher at a treatment center for addicts

in Los Angeles found that “rates of depression and

anxiety among affluent teens and young adults

correspond to the rates of depression and anxiety

suffered by incarcerated juveniles.” Other studies

suggest that overparented kids are “less open to new

ideas” and take “less satisfaction in life.” For Lythcott-

Haims, the message behind this research is the

same: Kids need to sally forth independently without

constant supervision. They need to try and even fail.

And when they fail and look around for a parent to

bail them out, they need to hear the words, “You must

figure this out for yourself.”

A
pais protetores ajudam no desenvolvimento da autoestima dos jovens.


B
pais superprotetores podem causar danos ao desenvolvimento dos jovens no futuro, embora diminuam a ansiedade e a tensão dos filhos.


C
pais vigilantes em excesso podem inibir o desenvolvimento dos filhos, criando jovens que podem se tornar inseguros.


D
pais vigilantes em excesso podem criar jovens inseguros, mas reforçam a criação de pessoas que cumprem deveres com maior exatidão, devido à própria vigilância.


E
pais superproterores podem criar atalhos e facilidades aos filhos, mas o mercado de trabalho irrefutavelmente causará aos jovens problemas de ansiedade e depressão.

Answer 1

Resposta:é a B

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