Our research team conducted a survey among the local children on how much time they usually spend per week talking with their parents. According to the survey, children spend less time having heart-to-heart talks with their parents when they grow older. For example, the 7-9 age group spends as many as 6 hours per week on average, while the 16-18 age group spends only half the time talking with their parents.
我们的团队针对当地的孩子们做了一项关于“他们每周大约花多少时间来和父母交流”的调研。调查显示，随着子女年龄的增长，他们与父母之间的交流会越来越少。例如：7到9岁时，他们每周大约能和父母交谈6小时左右，但是到了16-18岁时，他们与父母交流的时间还不到相处的一半。
There are three major reasons for this. 60% of the children think they have few topics in common with their parents. Another 20% say both parents and children are too busy working or studying to have a talk. Others even consider it useless talking with their parents, arguing that it does little good to their studies.
对于这种现象，主要是以下三点导致的。60％的孩子认为他们很少与他们的父母有共同话题。另有20％的人认为父母和孩子双方都忙于工作或学习。甚至还有人认为与父母交流对自己的学业毫无用处。
In my opinion, having regular heart-to-heart talks is a good way to form a good relationship between parents and children. As children we should first show respect to our parents, looking on them as our close friends and letting them know what we are interested in. Secondly, we should learn how to be a good listener.
在我看来，经常和父母交心、谈心，是跟父母形成良好关系的一个好方法。作为孩子我们首先应该尊重我们的父母，把他们当作我们最亲密的朋友，让他们知道我们的兴趣是什么；其次，我们应该学习如何成为一个好的倾听者。