1、London―life for Cathy Hagner and her three children is set to permanent （不大可能改變的）.  

Their  36  school day and her job as a lawyer’s assistant are busy enough.  37  Hagner also has to take the two boys to soccer or hockey or basketball while dropping off her  38  at piano lessons or Girl Scout Club.  

39 , the exhausted （筋疲力盡的） family doesn’t get home until 7 PM. There is just time for a quick   40  before homework.  

In today’s world, middle-class American and British parents treat their children  41  they were competitors  42  for some finishing line.  

Parents take their children from activity to activity to make their future  43 . It seems that raising a genius （英才） has become a more  44  goal than raising a happy and well-balanced child.  

“ 45  across the country are reporting a growing number of children  46  from stomachaches and headaches  47  exhaustion and stress," says child expert William Doherty of the University of Minnesota.  

Teachers are  48   exhausted kids in the classroom. It's a very serious problem. Many children attend  49  clubs by necessity. But competitive pressures also  50  an explosion of activities. They  51  sports, language, music and maths classes for children as  52  as four.  

“There is a new parenting trend under way which says you have to tap all your child’s potential at a young age,  53  you will let them down,” says Terry Apter, a Cambridge-based child and adolescent psychiatrist （青少年精神病專家）.  

“It isn’t entirely  54 ; there have always been pushy parents. But what was seen as strange behavior before is now well  55 .”