The excessive permissiveness of modern parents is surely doing more harm than good.

现代父母的过度娇纵无疑弊大于利。

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Even with more traffic and fewer sidewalks, modern parents do have one advantage their parents didn't: the cell-phone.

即使有更多的交通和更少的人行道，现代的父母有一个他们的父母没有的优势：手机。

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Q: So what's your advice to modern parents?

问：你对父母有什么建议呢？

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It is a stranger, so it is a risk, but for modern parents it may be convincing enough.

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Whereas daughters and wives once stayed at home to clean, cook and care for husbands, children and ageing parents, modern French women expect a life outside the home.

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So-called "helicopter parents" have been identified as part of modern campus life.

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