Hi,
I just read a quote in Reader’s Digest, October 2001 and I need you people’s help to understand it. Please explain it to me.
" Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them."
Tom
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What is perfect in the eyes of a child is not necessarily very satisfying in the eyes of an adult.
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Mister Micawber’s interpretation is interesting.
There’s something parents often say, which might also be an alternative way of understanding the sentence:
If you make life too cosy for your children, they might be less prepared for the ‘real world’.
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I like Conchita’s better. The concept of a ‘shock’ I couldn’t fit in to my interpretation very well.
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