“If you don’t believe, I’ll call the police.” is a lie that parents might use to get their young children to behave. A new psychological（心理学的）study led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore suggests that it has a relationship with harmful results when the children become adults.
The research team asked 379 Singaporean young adults whether their parents lied to them when they were children, how much they lie to their parents as adults, and how well they deal with adulthood challenges.
The first questionnaire（问卷）asked these young adults to recall（回忆）if their parents told them lies about eating, leaving or staying, spending money and so on. Some examples of such lies are “If you don’t come with me now, I will leave you here by yourself and “I don’t bring money with me today, we can come back another day”. Most of them filled in “Yes”. The second questionnaire included questions that could show how often they lie to their parents when they become adults. Adults who were lied to as children were more likely to lie to their parents when they grow up. They also said it was much more difficult for them when meeting psychological and social challenges.
Lead author Setoh Peipei from NTU Singapore’s School of Social Sciences said, “Parenting by lying can seem to save time, especially when the real reasons behind why parents want children to do something are difficult to explain. When parents tell children that honesty is the best rule, but display dishonesty by lying, such behavior can send wrong messages to their children. Parents’ dishonesty may finally destroy trust and encourage dishonesty in children.”
Our research suggests that parenting by lying is a practice that has negative influence on children when they grow up. Parents should understand these possible risks and think of other ways to replace lying, such as knowing children’s feelings, giving specific information so children know what to expect, offering choices and solving problems together, to encourage children to have good behavior, said lead author Setoh Peipei.
| Children can be | |
| Introduction | Parents’ using lies to make their children behave will |
| Questionnaires to 379 young adults | Asked them to recall if their parents told them lies. Asked about the frequency of Asked about their psychosocial problems. |
| Results | They faced greater difficulty when meeting psychological and social challenges. Some guests are with the sound proofing（隔音）and the dirty house. |
| Opinions | It’s hard to explain the reasons why parents lie to their children. |
| Parents should understand these possible risks and use correct ways instead of lying during parenting. Otherwise, trust between them would disappear and children would certainly learn dishonesty from them. | |
These days when the Chinese refused to pay for anything they got from the Internet may be over; now they not only concentrate on the usefulness of the information, but also are happy to spend money on information products that the knowledge market is serving up.
De Dao The app offers written articles and podcasts(播客) from famous people that the user must pay for, with many kinds of topics including music, business, science and technology. |
Zhang Zhiyuan works in the film and television industry. He used to prefer picking free online materials. But now he chooses to buy different kinds of information products which he needs to pay for from a few apps.
Zhang is only one of millions of those who have been using the apps to increase their knowledge and get useful information.
Ximalaya FM Ximalaya FM, a popular online learning platform(平台) has about 450 million users. The platform allows people to pay for and listen to online learning course. |
The reason for the change
The change of people’s attitude(态度)has something to do with the fact that Chinese people are experiencing the so-called knowledge worries. In a society changing so rapidly, people are afraid of not being able to get the latest information and being left out.
The result of a recent survey 75 percent of the Internet users are happy to pay for useful and helpful information. In addition, they also show deep interest in new apps that are both interesting and useful. |
People in big cities are usually too busy to read books and watch movies. The information products which invite famous people from different walks of life to offer people knowledge are surely welcome and they provide people with a chance to learn the knowledge which lets them seem as if they have read the book or watched the movie themselves.
At the same time, though many Chinese people can get free information and knowledge online, they hope to get something better when the free information cannot meet their need. More and more people start to understand that true knowledge is worth paying for.
【小题1】De Dao app and Ximalaya FM have something in common. What is it?【小题2】Why are more and more people happy to pay for the things they get from the Internet? (One reason is OK.)
【小题3】In the passage, the underlined word “they” refers to
【小题4】Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
【小题5】Will you use this kind of app? Why or why not?
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