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【作文真题】
Directions：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled How Should Parents Help Children to Be Independent? You should write at least 120 words folllowing the outline given below.

1. 目前不少父母为孩子包办一切
2. 为了让孩子独立, 父母应该……
How Should Parents Help Children to Be Independent?

【参考范文1】
How should parents help children to be independent?
Today in China, many families have only one child. So the children usually doted upon by all family members. Gradually some of them get used to depending on their parents and family members, as a result they lack the ability to face their lives by themselves.
　　There are some ways to help children to be independent. First, the child should have a chance to see the world around him individually to understand that there are various people and competitions in their lives, and learn to find his right position in the society only by individual efforts. Second, it is impossible to ask a child not to depend on parents at once.The parents may give the child enough help and space to make him feel comfortable. A child needs help from their families. Because without any help, the child may lose his faith. Thirdly, parents can help their children make their own decisions, which can challenge his ability to deal with problems. A child should be praised when he is successful or encouraged when he fails.
　　To be independent is vital for the children, because no parents can go with their children for the whole life. Only an independent person can live and enjoy a full and meaningful life.

【参考范文2】
How should parents help children to be independent?
This is a thought-provoking social phenomenon that parents monopolize their children’s everything. From going to university, selecting majors to hunting for a job, parents make every crucial decision for their sons and daughters.

No doubt, what the parents do leads to a most serious problem—children are badly dependent on parental help. Every morning the children wake up, but they don’t know what they should do and how they could do. They lose the ability to take care of themselves, and in turn, lose the opportunity to succeed.

Stop! Please. Don’t keep on spoiling the children anymore, because they need independence. These are some suggestions for parents. Firstly, parents should create an independent climate for their children. Secondly, parents should try to help children maintain their independence. Finally, parents should always believe that their children have the ability to make their own decisions in their lives.

Helping children towards independence will always be our businesses.

【参考范文3】
How should parents help children to be independent?
Nowadays, more and more parents indulge their children too much, showing too much love to them. The parents get used to make an arrangement of everything for their children. As result, many adult children will not deal with things by themselves but depend on their parents strongly.

How should parents help children to be independent? On the one hand, parents should try to tell the children the importance of independence at an early age. If the children have no awareness early, how can we expect them to achieve independence later. On the other hand, let the children always have a try by themselves before asking for help. Let them know that independent thinking is an absolute necessity in their life.

Helping children towards independence will always be our businesses.

【参考范文4】
How should parents help children to be independent ?
Nowadays, the number of single-child family is increasingly growing under the Family Policy. It’s not surpring that the child, viewed as the apple of the parents’ eye, get so much attention that there is a lack of independence in the life. While the parents are eager to make a fuss over their child, they must be aware that it is their too much love that make the children’s inability to comfront the difficulties from the life.
It is necessary for parents to provide love for their child in a right way. First，they are supposed not to pray for an easy life for their child. Children should be exposed to the real world, and with parents’ help they will make it clear that life is filled with ups and downs. Second, parents do as a leader to give children a right direction and other things are left to children. Last but not least, parents’ approval of right decision from children and encouragement to children when they fail is the strength of the growth for children. Sharing children’s success with them and helping them when necessary is more vital than too much love.
If parents can act as they realize the importance of helping their children as independent as much , they will find a real short- cut to a happy life for their children.