Chinese are very generous(慷慨的) when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the _______, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad—to England, the USA or Australia. The Chinese _______ that the more expensive the education is, _______ it is. _______ parents will spend a lot of money _______ their children’s education. Even _______ parents will buy a computer for their son or daughter. Though they’re not rich, they would rather pay for the education.

Parents can _______ that their children’s skills are different, skilled in some areas while poor in others. But most _______ fail to realize that the children today need more self﹣confidence.

The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to _______ tests and how to study well, but they are not teaching them the most important skills __________ they need. And these skills are important to help them to be __________, happy and clever.

Parents can achieve this __________ teaching their children the skills like cooking or doing other housework.

Teaching a child to cook will __________ many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking needs patience and time. It is an interesting __________ difficult experience. A good cook __________ tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish __________ job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will make him __________ good and give him a lot of self-confidence.

Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play __________, will make him interested and want to know more. He will spend hours studying them and trying to fix them. Your child might become an engineer when he __________. These activities are teaching a child not only to study at school, but also __________ to use his mind. And that is more important.