VOCABULARY hyper-parenting - nazbyt gorliwe wypełnianie obowiązków rodzicielskich to welcome - witać competitive - konkurencyjny, oparty na rywalizacji ambitious - ambitny middle-class - warstwy średnie parents - rodzice to stand out (from)- wyróżniać się crowd - tłum to program - programować to sign up - zapisywać brain - mózg to train - szkolić, trenować CD (Compact Disc)- płyta kompaktowa unborn child - nienarodzone dziecko by the way - á propos, nawiasem mówiąc to seem - wydawać się to forget - zapominać lousy - tu: zły, słaby (student)

LESSON 31
Hyper-parenting

Welcome to the world of hyper-parenting. It's the most competitive sport
among ambitious middle-class parents.

They want their babies to be special. Super-intelligent. They want them to stand out from the rest of the crowd. So what do they do? They program them like a computer.

They sign them up for music lessons and they take them to reading
classes.

They brain train them with CDs and videos like 'Music for the
unborn child', 'Baby Mozart', and 'Baby Einstein', of course…

By the way, they seem to forget that Einstein was a lousy student…

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	Lesson 31

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