孩子，也许你最好到住在码头附近的姑娘家里去过夜。
Perhaps you'd better stay all night with some of the girls that live near the ferry-landing, child.
每一次你复制那首歌，可能就把它传给了一个不知道这首歌的人，也许是一个小孩子。
Each time you replicated that song, and maybe passed it along to someone who did not know it yet, a small child maybe.
如果你是个好孩子，这也许是真的——但你太让人讨厌了！
If you were a nice boy it might be true—but you're too nasty!
也许你的孩子只是在学校里捣乱。
你也许不知道，但是我们的孩子的确喜欢过一段时间和我们出去玩一次，尤其是我们尊重他们，关爱他们的时候。
You may not know this but our children do enjoy hanging out with us once in a while, especially when we treat them with respect and love.
也许，你还曾经以自己的孩子能在自己工作过的公司工作而骄傲。
Maybe you’d even have the pride of seeing your kids work at the same company.
你的孩子也许不能马上明白这个道理，但是等他们大点，他们会懂的。
Your child might not understand this concept now, but they will as they get older.
也许，你的孩子有自己的植物或花园。
也许对你的孩子来说确诊为ADHD的界限会降低：这是一种病症，和许多其他病症一样，确诊界限有着很大的弹性。
Perhaps the threshold for attaining a diagnosis of ADHD will be lower for your children: it's a condition, like many others, with a notably flexible diagnostic boundary.
也许你留给这个世界的启示是培育孩子的方法，怎样为他们提供一个幸福的家庭和良好的成长环境。
Maybe your message to the world is how to bring up your children and provide a loving upbringing and happy home.
也许你的孩子并不对花生过敏。
你的清单也许包括：“我待人友善，我喜欢孩子，我热爱阅读，我爱计算机，我爱数字，我擅长提出营销概念，我是问题解决者。”
Your list might include: "I'm really good with people, I love kids, I love to read, I love computers, I love numbers, I'm good at coming up with marketing concepts, I'm a problem solver.
也许，你会觉得孩子们对父母们过于失望。
Or maybe you think your children are too permissive as parents.
也许生活总是很忙碌，你很难和你的爱人、孩子有共处的时光，在一些特别的地方留些字条怎么样？
Perhaps life has become so busy that you feel like your schedule rarely coincides with that of your partner or kids. How about leaving them a note somewhere unexpected?
也许你发现扛着孩子四处走走也不错。
May you find that just taking a walk with the baby on the shoulder of your help.
看你孩子最爱的电视节目，也许你也会喜欢上它(我暗地里其实非常迷汉娜·蒙塔纳，嘘！)
Watch your child's favorite TV show, maybe you will learn to like it too (I am secretly addicted to Hannah Montana, SHHHH!)
如果这个博客和孩子有关，也许你会想用“蜡笔”效果的字体写帖子的题目。
If it’s about kids, you might have fonts that look like they were written in crayon (for example).
然后你的孩子们也许还会做一些让你觉得很幸福的事情。
And then your kids may do something that really makes you feel like a king.
你的孩子也许并不需要一个具体的数字作为解答，尤其是年纪尚幼或者对五、六位的数字没有概念的孩子。
Your children may not be looking for a number, especially if they’re young and have no context for five- or six-digit figures.
也许你最好的选择是尝试安排一个较长的孩子看护计划。
Perhaps your best bet is to try to arrange for longer bouts of childcare.
也许你该找回那种孩子气的热情，拾起画板，重回绿茵场，或者尽情戏耍。
Perhaps you should tap into that childlike enthusiasm and pick up painting or soccer or tickling.
你也许可以可虑夫妻共同参与的活动，像保龄球或者高尔夫，或者任何其他你和你的另一半在有孩子以前喜欢做的事。
You may want to consider taking up a couples activity like bowling or golf, or whatever it was you enjoyed doing with your spouse before the kids came along.
因此，如果为了以后生孩子而过早地对工作懈怠，那么一旦生完孩子你也许就没那么大的动力回去工作了。
So if you wind down your career too early out of concern for a future child, you may not have much to go back to once you have that baby.
一开始你也许会觉得不自在，但试着模仿你孩子做的每样事情。
At first you might feel uncomfortable doing that but try to repeat everything your kid does.
事实上，也许你现在就打算停下来做个祈祷，像小孩子那样，迈着蹒跚的步子。
In fact, you might want to take a wobbly step now, by pausing to pray, like a little child.
对你而言，也许是编织、教小孩子学数学、做一顿大餐或是上一堂瑜伽课。
Perhaps for you it's knitting, teaching children math, cooking a good meal or leading a yoga class.
你将会看到这个人喂饭，而这个孩子被喂饭；你会看到食物、咀嚼，也许还有孩子的微笑。
You’d see the person feedingand the child fed; you’d see the food, the chewing, perhaps you’d see the childsmile.
尽管别人可能告诉过你，你也许会这么想，但向你的孩子表达自己的情感绝不是“软弱”或“不够坚强”，而是表明你是一个懂得爱和关心的人。
Despite what you may have been told or may feel showing your child affection is not a sign of being "soft" or "not tough", it's a sign of being a loving and caring human being.
渐渐地你发现你开始能够区别孩子不同的哭声。也许不需要每次孩子一哭就去核对上面的清单了。
Over time, you find that you begin to recognize the difference between your baby cries, and probably not need to go right through the checklist every time baby cries.
你也许会认为有一些起疙瘩的孩子住在地下室，但约翰·列侬是亲自去地下室见过这些孩子的。
You'd think this could be some pimply kid in a basement, but John Lennon met some pimply kid from a basement.
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