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看罢中国小孩子的“凄惨生活”，你先别忙着叹气，这个世界上人的差别其实并不大。那年在尼泊尔旅游，小编不经意间看到“补课”的小广告，再稍留意，才发现，这种小广告到处都是。敢情这补课也讲究“接轨”啊。其实，不仅仅是补课，就连“不要输在起跑线上”也不是中国特色呢。这段印度人讲的英语，一开始听起来会很费力。要注意几点：一是印式英语总体上来说发音与英式英语更近，特别是元音；二是印式英语的辅音，尤其是词首辅音不标准，如T、D不分等；三是印式英语就跟宝莱坞的歌舞片一样，语调变化特别多，而且一般的陈述句也常常以升调结束。
All work and no play. That seems to be holding true for kids these days. Children as young as two can now sing, rattle off nursery rhymes and are growing up faster than anyone could ever imagine.
It looks like innocent fun, but these toddlers are actually shaping up for graduation day; and they started early, mind you. Like baby Via, who can sing, rattle off nursery rhyme identify colours and animal all before she turns two. Little Via and her classmates are learning vital survival skill skills these future leaders of India Inc. being taught in a 12-month program in a Mumbai school. And, of course, these doting parents are very, very proud.
Mother: I feel like they have that potential, and we should use it.
No time to goof around—unh uh—or slack off in class. The rat race just got tougher, and there's not enough time to soak it all up.
But are these children learning to run before they can walk? Or are they getting a head start in a ruthlessly competitive world? It's a question being asked with more and more schools in Mumbai turning toddlers into little adults. Parents feel that such a program is essential for their young kids today because these young children, themselve are inquisitive to learn new things. And perhaps that's why this school has a wait list for the next mother/toddler program. But perhaps it is this thought that is not going down well with the child psychologists.
Dr. Chabbria (Child Psychologist): What is happening is that we might be churning out robots who have all the information but actually do not really know how to use that information, and maybe even be getting overconfident kid who cannot see beyond themselves.
Parents and children that play together learn together, and the school says parents are taught constructive play techniques. But the big question i with all that learning, does it leave these little ones any time to play?
