I contend that our parents should give their children a free hand in some matters to help them to be independent.

In our country, the only-one child policy has made more and more parents pay so much attention to their children that they would like to replace their children to do everything, including study, work and even marriage. This notion has given to many problems for children’s grow-ups. Therefore, our parents should learn to help their children to be independent.

在我国，由于计划生育政策使越来越多的家长更加的重视他们的孩子，以至于他们愿意为他们的孩子做任何事情，包括学习，工作，甚至婚姻。这样的观念给孩子的成长带来了许多问题。因此，父母应该帮助孩子独立。

There are some suggestions given to our parents. For one thing, it is quite important for our parents to realize that their children will grow up and have their own ideas and thoughts as time goes by. Thus, children should be encouraged to make some decisions alone in some matters so that they are able to pursue what they want. And this would also make contribution to solve what we called “generation gap.”

这是给父母的一些建议。首先，让我们的父母认识到随着时间的流逝他们的孩子会长大而且也会有自己的想法是很重要的。因此，在某些事情上应该鼓励孩子独自做出决定，这样他们才可以追求他们想要的东西。这也将有利于解决我们所谓的“代沟”问题。

For another, our parents should believe that their children have enough ability to deal with their personal matters and differentiate between good and evil. Hence, parents should give some family chores to their children properly because it is a good chance to train them.

另一方面，我们的父母应该相信他们的孩子有足够的能力来处理他们的个人事务，明辨是非。父母应该给孩子做一些家务因为这是训练他们的好机会。

Of course, I am not saying that our parents should not help their children when they are getting into trouble, but I contend that our parents should give their children a free hand in some matters to help them to be independent.

当然，我不是说我们的父母不应该在他们的孩子陷入麻烦的时候帮助他们，但我认为，父母应该在某些问题方面给孩子自主决定权来帮助他们独立。