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Christine closed the door to Anna's room. Inside, her classmate and friend had fallen asleep. Downstairs, Christine's mom, Donna, was grasping Anna's mother Sheila around the shoulders. "We should go, "she said. "Get some rest, huh?"Sheila nodded, blew her nose, and then waved them goodbye.
On the car ride home, Christine worked up the courage to ask the question on her mind, "Mom?Why was Sheila weeping?"She thought she knew the answer, of course:Anna's cancer. In the past, Anna had been the neighborhood dogooder, always going door to door for various causes the local animal shelter, suffering children in Africa, or the families who'd lost their homes to fire. Now Anna could barely feed or dress herself. Christine thought it so unfair when bad things like this happened to good people.
"Well, it's complex, but I guess you're old enough to understand."
"Understand what?"
"Understand that Anna is sick, yes, but Anna actually gets a lot of help. The government helps pay for a lot of her medicine. She gets meals delivered to her by a nonprofit. She even gets massages from local volunteers. "
"Wow!"
"Her life's still very hard, of course, and no one would trade places with her, but when you have cancer, everyone can see that you need help, "continued Donna. "They don't always see that the people around you are suffering. "
"People like Sheila?"
"Yes, did you know that Sheila took a break from her job to stay home with Anna?"
"No!"Christine was surprised. She had never thought about who took Anna to her appointments, or fed her when she was too weak to lift a spoon. Of course it was her family .
"Yes. So that means that many of the things they used to do with that extra money are all out the window now. They're even worried now about keeping the house. "
"Their house? So Anna might have to move, while she's sick?"
"If she doesn't get better soon, and the bills keep piling up. . . "Donna pulled into the driveway, and just in time. Her cheeks were shining with tears.
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"There has to be something done for them , "Christine said firmly to their classmates and friends.
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But the best part of the party was when Anna came through the door with her family , attracted with promises of chocolate cake and live music.
If you want to help children develop language and speech skills, UCLA researchers say, listening to what they have to say is just as important as talking to them.

The effect of a conversation between a child and an adult is about six times as great as the effect of adult speech input(输入)alone, the researchers found. “Adults speaking to children helps language develop, but what matters much more is the interaction, ”said the study's lead author, Frederick Zimmerman, an associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. The researchers also found that TV viewing didn't have much of an effect—positively or negatively—as long as it wasn't displacing conversations between an adult and a child.
The UCLA study included 275 families with children between 2 months and 48 months old. They represented a variety of incomes and education. The researchers found that, in an average day, children heard about 13, 000 spoken words from adults and participated in about 400 adult-child conversations a day.
Assessed separately, factors positively associated with language development included each additional 100 conversations a day and each 1, 000 words increase in the number of words spoken by adults and heard by children. When looked at alone, TV was negatively associated with language development. But, when these three factors were analyzed together, the only one that stood out was conversation between adults and children.
“The more a child speaks and interacts with an adult, the better idea a parent has about where the child is”, Zimmerman said. “Although it's mostly done unconsciously, parents will provide feedback and correct mistakes. They'll also tailor their speech to the child. Parents can give the children words by talking to them about what they're doing, such as, ‘I'm putting on your pajamas now'. But give your child the opportunity to talk, hopefully without the rest of the noise in the environment, ”she added. “If parents can carve out some conversation time—maybe at bath time or at dinner time—that's a wonderful thing. ”
—Yes, they took away all the there and became rich overnight.
It is not the house .