1. She thinks the purpose of teaching children is to develop their self-worth.
    她认为教育孩子的目的是发展他们的自我价值。

2. She wrote a note on the envelope and left it on his book: "Husband, I have gone next door to help Mrs. Norton with her sick children."
    她在信封上写了一行留言，放在他的书上：“老公，我去隔壁帮诺顿太太照顾她的几个生病的孩子了。”

3. So were school-age children. I thought this might mean more exchanges as I made the rounds today.
    上学的孩子也一样。我心里琢磨，这可能意味我挨家挨户收垃圾时可以和人们多搭上几句话了。

4. So, last Monday I looked through album-sized books of pictures mostly of young men — an amazing number of them actually children.
    于是，上周一我翻看了数本大大小小的照片簿，多数是年轻人的--令人惊讶的是其中有相当一部分实际上还是孩子。

5. Several mothers who were waiting to pick up their children expressed anxiety about subjecting their youngsters to such pressure.
    有几位母亲等着接自己的孩子，她们担心这样会使孩子有压力。

6. Saving the environment is really about saving our environment — making it safe for ourselves, our children and the world as we know it.
    拯救环境其实就是拯救我们自己的环境——是为了保障我们自己、我们的子孙以及我们周围世界的安全。

7. Supportive parents were those who would go out of their way to help their children follow their favorite interests and praised whatever level of achievement resulted.
    支持型的家长会尽全力帮助孩子发展兴趣爱好，赞扬其获得的成就，不管那有多么微小。

8. Stimulating parents were more actively involved in what their children did, steering them towards certain fields and pushing them to work hard, often acting as a tutor.
    激励型的家长会更主动地参与到孩子们的活动中去，在某些领域里带领他们前行，推动他们努力，通常起着导师的作用。

9. So what is the outlook for parents who do everything right, those who manage to be both supportive and stimulating, who are good at demonstrating thinking skills to their children and successful at cultivating a self-motivated approach to learning?
    那么，对那些模范家长，那些做到了对孩子既支持又激励，善于教给孩子思考的方法，成功地培养孩子学习上的主动性的家长，前景如何呢？

10. Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Peter Pan, and Pinocchio all come from European fairy tales or stories and are as familiar to children here as they are in the United States.
    睡美人、白雪公主、彼得·潘和匹诺曹都是欧洲童话故事里的人物，这里的孩子对他们的熟悉程度丝毫不亚于美国的孩子。