在发达国家的家庭里,父母普遍都重视从小培养孩子的自理能力和自强精神。之所以如此,是因为发达的市场经济社会要求社会成员必须具备这种能力和精神。我们国家也正在发展市场经济,他们的做法对我们中国的父母具有借鉴意义。在美国,家庭教育是以培养孩子成为富有开拓精神、自食 In the developed country families, parents generally attach importance to children’s self-care ability and self-improvement. This is so because the developed market economy requires that members of society must possess this ability and spirit. Our country is also developing a market economy, and their approach can be of reference to our Chinese parents. In the United States, family education is to develop children become full of pioneering spirit, self-consumption