One of the serious mistakes parents can make is to _____. A. push their child into trying too much

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions

If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children. However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a sensible way, the child may succeed in doing very well – especially if the parents are very supportive of their child. Michael Collins is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. Michael’s mother knows very little about music, but his father plays the trumpet in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling. Winston Smith, Michael’s friend, however, is not so lucky. Both his parents are successful musicians, and they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.

A. push their child into trying too much

B. help their child to become a genius

Thông tin: If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a disaster. According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what his parents expect, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children. (Nếu cha mẹ nuôi dạy con cái với mục đích duy nhất là biến đứa trẻ thành thiên tài, họ sẽ gây ra tai họa. Theo một số nhà tâm lý học giáo dục hàng đầu, đây là một trong những sai lầm lớn nhất mà các bậc cha mẹ quá tham vọng mắc phải. Nói chung, đứa trẻ sẽ chỉ biết quá rõ về những gì cha mẹ mong đợi, và sẽ thất bại. Những kỳ vọng không thực tế của cha mẹ có thể gây ra thiệt hại lớn cho trẻ.)

Chọn A