Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children.

However, what most parents fail to see is that the best 【小题1】 (educate) they can give their children is usually very cheap.

They may clearly know that their children do well in some areas but do 【小题2】 (poor) in others. What most parents fail 【小题3】 (realize) is that today’s children lack self-respect and self-confidence.

They can achieve this by 【小题4】 (teach) practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.

Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking 【小题5】 (need) patience and time. It is an enjoyable 【小题6】 difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. His result, 【小题7】 well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence.

Some old machines, such as a 【小题8】 (break) radio or TV set that you give your child to play 【小题9】 will make him curious and arouse（激发）his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix 【小题10】 (they); Your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.