Many teenagers are not willing to communicate with their parents because they think their parents would not understand them.

很多青少年不愿意和父母沟通，因为他们觉得父母不会理解他们。

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"We communicate with their parents so that we help the parents understand the importance of children's education, because the parents didn't care much about it years ago," explains Yang Chenhaotong, who was the leader of the volunteer team in 2019.

“我们和他们的父母沟通，帮助他们理解孩子教育的重要性，因为几年前这些父母不怎么关心孩子的教育。”2019年志愿者团队的负责人杨晨浩童解释说。

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Young people sometimes complain of not being able to communicate with their parents.

年轻人有时候会抱怨无法与父母沟通。

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Some parents use social media to communicate with their kids and to monitor their activities.

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Kids will use e-mail to communicate with their parents, but it's seen as very stodgy.

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The Family Planning Association runs Speakeasy courses helping parents to communicate with their children about difficult subjects like growing up, relationships and sex.

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Idit Harel, CEO of MaMaMedia, a popular children's Web site with 250, 000 registered members, says many parents today are ill-equipped to communicate with their children about the Internet, because they did not grow up with it.

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