兒童暑假也忙碌

暑假到了，早高峰的公交地鐵上，人們經常看到父母帶著孩子背著大書包啃著漢堡去趕補習班的身影。假期的孩子過得好像比學期還要忙碌。

Hurried child syndrome refers to a condition in which parents overschedule their children's lives, push them hard for academic success, and expect them to behave and react as miniature adults.
“忙碌兒童綜合征”指的是家長將孩子的生活安排得過滿、極力要求孩子在學業上取得佳績，并且希望孩子表現得像小大人一樣的現象。

The concept of the hurried child was first proposed by child psychologist David Elkind in his now-classic 1981 book The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast.
“忙碌兒童”這個概念是由心理學家大衛?艾爾金德在其1981年出版的經典著作《忙碌兒童：成長得太快》首次提出的。

One symptom of the hurried child syndrome is forcing pre-school children to constantly take classes and perform other "enrichment" exercises to help them prepare for school. This is also called hothousing and the superbaby syndrome.
“忙碌兒童綜合征”的癥狀之一就是強迫學齡前兒童不斷參加各種輔導班和特長培訓，以幫助他們為入學做好準備。這種現象也被稱為“溫室培育”和“超級寶貝綜合征”。

（中國日報網英語點津 yaning）