American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.

皮尤研究中心的报告和以往的研究都发现，美国父母对他们的孩子有类似的要求：希望他们健康快乐、诚实守信、仁义道德、关心他人和富有同情心。

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Parents should be honest to their children, but they don't have to tell the whole truth.

父母应该对孩子诚实，但他们不必把全部真相都说出来。

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My parents taught me to be honest, but my teacher doesn't like it when I am.

我的父母教我要诚实，但我的老师不喜欢我这样做。

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Libby suggests that to combat favoritism or differential treatment, parents to be very honest with themselves, or to ask a trusted friend to be a checkpoint for them.

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For another, they don't tend to be prima donnas, because tiger parents are brutally honest.

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And let us be honest - tonight too many parents, after they put their children to bed, will speak of their worries about losing their jobs or the need to sell the house too many will share stones of friends or neighbours already packing up their homes, and too many will talk of a local store or business that has already gone to the wall.

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