Kids would be overexcited during Spring Festival, for the simple reason that they would receive “lucky money”from their parents as well as other elderships. According to ancient custom, the elder generations put a certain number of money in a red envelope, and give it to the children of the family, wishing that the children would grow up healthily and happily.
孩子们在春节期间都会很兴奋，原因很简单，他们会从父母和其他长辈那里得到“压岁钱”。按照古老的习俗，长辈们会把一定数量的钱放在一个红包里，之后就给家里的小孩们，希望孩子们能够健康快乐地成长。
How to reasonably deal with those “lucky money”is a serious question for parents and children alike. As far as I am concerned, two ways below are worth to be considered.
父母和小孩如何合理地使用这些“压岁钱”是一个很严肃的问题。我认为以下两种方式都是值得考虑的。
One sensible way is to save the money for higher education. With the development of economic and urbanization, the competition is becoming more and fiercer. The demand of people with high degree is increasing, which means, the threshold for a “white-collar”job is higher and higher. Therefore, accepted into a college is viewed as a necessary and an initial step for a good job. Given the increasing cost of college education and postgraduate education, saving the “lucky money”is at least an economic guarantees for higher education.
一种明智的做法是把钱存起来用于高等教育。随着经济的发展以及城市化进程的加快，市场竞争日趋激烈。对于高学历人才的要求日益增加，这就意味着， “白领”的门槛是越来越高了。因此，上过大学被认为是好工作的必要步骤。鉴于大学教育和研究生教育成本的增加，把“压岁钱”存起来至少是对高等教育的一个经济保障。
The other way is investing, and by investing I do not mean buy stocks or bonds, but investing in self-improvement. For example, purchasing some books, literature, politic, philosophy, whatever you like. As Bacon said, “reading makes a full man”, investing in books you are interested in would expand your knowledge and improve your attainment. However, not only books could attribute to self-improvement, art and sports or other skills could also do. Invest some money to learn piano, guitar, etc.; or to learn dancing, swimming, tennis…Or just to learn how to drive is a worthwhile acquirement.
另一种是投资，而投资我并不是指购买股票或债券，而是对自我提高的投资。例如，购买一些书籍，文学，政治，哲学，任何你喜欢的都可以。正如培根说的，“读书使人充实”，在你感兴趣的书上投资可以扩大你的知识，提高自己的素养。然而，不仅仅是书籍可以帮助自我提高，艺术和体育或其他技能也是可以的。投资一些钱去学钢琴，吉他等；或学习舞蹈，游泳，网球……或只是学习驾驶也是有价值的收获。
All in all, you could name other good ways to use“lucky money” of course, as long as it is worthwhile, and saving for education and investing in self-improvement are definitely among them.
总之，当然，只要是值得的，你也可以列出其他使用“压岁钱”的好方法，为教育存钱，为自我提高而投资肯定是其中之一。
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如何与孩子沟通?How to Communicate With Kids?（必备）
As the saying that every family has their issues, the most common issue between families is the communication between parents and children. Most kids would not like to talk about their happiness and sorrow with their parents, they think their parents never really understand them. If the parents want to have nice talk with their kids, they must try to be the kids’ friends.
俗话说，每个家庭都有他们的烦恼，家庭中最普遍的烦恼就是父母和孩子间的沟通。大部分孩子不喜欢和他们的父母谈论他们的幸福和忧伤，他们觉得父母从来没有真正的理解他们。如果家长想要和他们的孩子交流愉快，他们必须尝试成为孩子的朋友。
The problem why the kids would not like to talk things with their parents is that the parents always treat their kids as the small ones, so when the kids want to try something they are interested, the parents’ first reaction is to deny the children’s trying, and tell them to do this is na?ve. As the parents always judge what their kids do with their viewpoint, the children feel frustrated and don’t want to talk to their parents gradually.
孩子不愿意和他们的父母聊天的问题在于父母总是把他们的孩子当成没长大，因此当孩子想要和他们聊一些感兴趣的话题时，父母的第一反应就是否定孩子的尝试，告诉他们这样做事很幼稚的。由于父母总是用他们的眼光来评判孩子的所作所为，孩子会感到受挫，慢慢不想要和他们的父母交流。
The parents should listen to their kids more, it is better not to give the children judgment right now, to be the kids’ friends will help promote the communication. So when the children tell their plans or interesting things, the parents should just listen to them.
父母应该多聆听孩子的心声，最好不要立刻给孩子下定论，成为孩子的朋友会让他们的交流更好地进行。因此当孩子告诉他们父母他们的计划或者有趣的事情时，父母应该听听孩子的。
精彩文章How to Quit Smoking 如何戒烟（必备）
Most smokers are males, because they need to smoke for social communication or for set themselves free from the pressure. In the packaging, we can find that every packaging has written the words that smoking is harmful to health. Though smokers know it, they ignore it. For the harmony of the family, people should quit smoking.
大部分吸烟者是男性，因为他们需要吸烟来进行社交或者借吸烟来缓解压力，我们可以发现每包烟的包装上都写有吸烟有害健康。虽然吸烟者也知道，但是他们忽略掉这些字。为了家庭的和谐，人们应该戒烟。
To quit smoking is not easy, people know smoking does harm to their health, but they just can’t resist the temptation and then start to smoke again, so they must have strong will. They must tell themselves that smoking not only does harm to their health, but also does harm to their families. The families will have much chance to take in the second-hand cigarette, in order to keep the families healthy, smokers must have the strong will to quit smoke.
戒烟不容易，人们也知道吸烟有害健康，但是他们无法抵制诱惑，又开始复吸，所以他们必须要有坚强的意志。他们必须告诉自己吸烟不仅危害他们的健康，同时也危害家人的健康。家人很有可能会吸到二手烟，为了让家人保持健康，吸烟者必须要有坚强的意志来戒烟。
When people find it hard not to smoke, their mouth will feel uneasy, they want to smoke again. At that time, people can find some food or fake cigarette to take place of the real cigarette, in the long time, they will have less desire to smoke.
当人们发现不吸烟很难的时候，他们的嘴巴会觉得很不舒服，想要再次吸烟。在那时，人们可以找一些食物或者假烟来代替真的烟，长期以来，他们吸烟的愿望就没有那么强烈了。
精彩文章让孩子步行上学 Let Kids Walk to the School（必备）
These days, inNanjingcity, taking a taxi to school is getting more and more fashionable amongmiddle-school students. Some of them are children of businessmen who arerelatively well-off. The parents of these children claim they can earn muchmoney easily and the yearly taxi fees spent by children mean nothing to them.But most parents must work very hard---some even have to find a second job toafford their children’s high consumption.
近日，在南京中学生打的去上学的现象越来越成为一种潮流。他们有的是相当富有的商人子女。这些孩子的父母声称他们赚钱容易，孩子每年乘坐出租车的费用对他们来说不算什么。但是大部分的家长必须努力工作，有的甚至不得不兼职第二份工作以供孩子的高消费。
Parents’ love for their children is natural andunderstandable. They are not willing to let their children take the crowdedbuses and endure hardships of a long time bump. But this practice seems to domore harm than good to these kids. It is not simply a question of taking a taxi,it involves the parents’ education of their children in terms of charactercultivating and physical training in the making of a man. In my opinion, nomatter how wealthy a family is, they should not spoil their children in theprocess of personality development. Instead, they should do something to tempertheir children to endure hardship and torture of life and get self-dependent.They should let their children bear in mind that money does not come easily andanything cannot be achieved without sweat and tears. So they should not takeeverything for granted.
家长爱孩子是天经地义也是可以理解的。他们不愿意让孩子乘坐拥挤的公车，忍受长时间的颠簸。但是这一实践带给孩子的坏处似乎多于好处。这不仅仅只是打的的问题，它涉及了家长对孩子们人格塑造过程中培养个性和锻炼身体的教育。在我看来，不管一个家庭多富有，他们都不应该在个性发展的过程中溺爱孩子。他们反而应该做些什么来锻炼孩子忍受生活中的痛苦和折磨从而变得自立。他们应该让孩子们牢记钱来之不易，没有什么是不需要汗水和泪水就可以得到的。因此他们就不应该认为一切都是理所当然的。
Our younger generations should have a comprehensivedevelopment, intellectually, physically and ethically. At present, it issurprising that moral education and character training for children are oftenignored. Let’s remember what Helen Keller, a blindUSwriter, says, “Character cannotbe developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and sufferingcan the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and successachieved.”
我们这年轻的一代应该德智体美全面发展。令人惊讶的是现在人们常常忽视了对孩子的道德教育和性格培养。让我们牢记美国作家海伦凯勒说的：“在安逸和平静中，人格是无法发展的。只有透过磨难和痛苦，灵魂才能健壮，异象才能看清，雄心才能激扬，成功才能达到。”
精彩文章社会道德不应“过时” Social Morality Should Not Be Out of Date（必备）
Chinahas long been known as “the land ofceremony and propriety.” Today, however, people often complain that publicmorals are no longer what they used to be. A family, for example, likes a cellof society, which also mirrors the general mood of a country. As we know, theChinese have very strong family ties. But with the emergence of a “modern”concept to families, people find that problems like high divorce rate andextramarital affairs become more serious than ever before.
中国长期以来一直被称作“礼仪之邦”。然而，现在人们常常抱怨公德已经不是过去的样子了。例如，一个家庭就像是社会的一个细胞，反映着一个国家的情绪。我们都知道，中国人有强烈的家庭情结。但是，随着现代观念渗入到家庭，人们发现高离婚率和婚外情的问题变得比以往更严重了。
Another example: the name of Lei Feng who was alwaysready to lend a helping hand to others, used to be known by almost all Chineseas a model to learn from. But today, some people claim that “the spirit of LeiFeng” is outdated. Fashionable ideas say money talks. In the early stage of themarket economic development, the appearance of some evil phenomena is notsurprising. But we should not sit passively by and let it run rampant. Instead,active measures should be taken to improve morals and ethics of the public.
又如，雷锋—一个随时准备伸出援助之手，曾经被几乎所有的中国人当做学习榜样的名字。但是，现在人们却声称雷锋精神已经过时了。时尚的想法认为有钱能使鬼推磨。在市场经济发展初期，出现一些邪恶现象不足为奇。但是，我们不应该坐以待毙，任其猖獗。相反，我们应该采取积极措施以提高公共道德。
Personally, the media should play a leading role inthis regard. They should spare no effort to praise the good and criticize theevil. They should guide people how to tell the truth, goodness and beauty fromthe fault, ugliness and evil.
就个人而言，媒体应该在这方面起关键作用。他们应该不遗余力地赞扬美好，批判邪恶；他们应该引导人们如何让辨别真善美与假丑恶。
精彩文章How to Escape the tire of Work 如何工作不累
Base on the love of your job, how to keepyour physical strength has become very important.
在热爱工作的基础上，如何保持体力很重要.
Firstly, you need to make your body into ahealth status, then devote to work. Please take one hour not thinking anything,then go into mediation, while you feel comfortable, you can start to work. The statuswhat you need to adjust include headache, giddy, and belly up, etc.
第一，要将身体调整好的再工作，花一个小时左右时间，什么都不想，进入冥想，将身体调整到舒服的状态，再开始工作。调整的状态包括，消除头蒙、昏沉，去掉肚胀等。
You can also think you are just like astone, through meditation to fully adjust the stone’s light, smooth, color andshape, etc. Making that stone change the status including the sharp, opaque andcold can be fully adjusted to luster, smooth, crystal clear, mellow and warmstone. The stone’s status is the status of our body mood, the stone’s statusadjust well, that our mood status change well too.
也可以想象自己就像一块石头，通过冥想将石头颜色、形状、亮度等作全面的调整，将黑暗、有棱角、不透明、冰冷的石头全面调整为光彩、光滑、晶莹、圆润、温暖的石头。石头的状态就是我们的身体情绪状态，石头状态调整好了，我们的情绪状态也会有所好转。
Secondly, in our work, don’t thinktoo much the time for the workload, please more care your body health status,tire or not. If tire, please do more further adjustment.
第二，工作过程中，不要过于考虑工作时间的长短，更多关注身体状态，是累了还是不累，如果累了就再通过第一步调整。
Thirdly, you had better not work more than0:00. If happen, please also follow the above way to do the adjustment.
第三，最好不要超过夜里12点，如果超过12点，也要依照上面进行调整。
Actually, working process is to keep focuson your work, don’t effected by the mood, which will cost your energy,specially need to adjust the negative emotion to positive and keep happy moodto work, this will make twice the result with half the effort.
这个过程其实就是要保持专注，不要过多受情绪的影响，额外地消耗能量，特别要将负面的情绪调整为正面的情绪，怀着愉悦的心情工作，上述过程会事半功倍。