Nowadays，the problem of generation gap becomes more and more serious. Based on the survey by our school, the poor relationship between parents and their children is very common. Are these problems caused by the busy parents? Or, do the harsh family rules affect their relationship?

Firstly, in most of the families in the US, both of the parents have to go out for work in order to earn more money to proveide better environment for their lovely children. Unfortunately, this causes the rare communication between them and their children, since these parents always take rest during leisure time. These parents and children cannot know deeply about each other, then friction is easy to appear. Therefore, a wid e generation gap comes into being.

Secondly, parents who ask their children to be absolute obedient to them is also one of the grave causes of generation gap between them. Therefore, these children are not willing to communicate with their parents and most of these parents are not active to talk with their children. Thus, misunderstanding between them often occurs.

To solve these problems, the busy parents should sacrifice their spare time to communicate with their children actively so as to improve their relationship. At the same time, they can also observe their children’s behavior in order to understand their children’ personality and reduce the quarrel betweeen them.

Besides that, the parents should try to give up their absolute power in family to give a better image to their children since it can make their children feel free to chat with their parents. Then it is easy for the parents to approach their lovely children. Therefore, a close and harmonious relationship between parents and children appears.

In conclusion, to have a close relationship between parents and children, the parents should devote their leisure time to talking with their children and observing their childern’s personality and give their children the approaching images. If so, this terrible phenomenon, generation gap, cannot occur any more.

亮点词句

1. Based on the survey by our school…我校的一项调查显示……
2. Are these problems caused by the busy parents?Or, do the harsh family rules
affect their relationship? 这些问题都是因为父母太忙引起的吗?抑或家教太严影响了两代人的关系?(以提问方式引出文章内容,起到引发读者思考、增加阅读兴趣的作用)
3. friction n. 冲突，不和，摩擦
4. come into being 出现，形成
5. be absolutely obedient to somebody 对某人绝对地顺从
6. Thus, misunderstanding between them often occurs. 因此，误解时有发生
7. try to give up their absolute power in family to give a better image to their children 尽量放弃他们（父母）在家中的绝对权力，在孩子面前树立良好的形象

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本文作者是一个美国孩子。在遇到这类文题时，我们的学生往往会编造出一些例子（别人的或自己的）来说明代沟的存在和危害，最后的落脚点通常是“少年不知愁滋味”、“枉费父母一片心”等。这样的立意不能说没有道理，但千篇一律地都这样说，无疑体现了我们思维的保守和僵化。

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