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A seven-year-old boy, with his family, was inspecting a new car, one with a metal strip (条纹) looking like wood. “Dad,” the boy whispered, “don’t 1 this wood rot." He was jolted when his father started laughing. Then, when the father 2 his private remark with the salesman, and he laughed, the boy felt 3 . Some 30 years later, now a father himself, the man often thinks of this 4 whenever his own children say something that is unintentionally funny.
Most parents are 5 by such reactions because they don’t understand how deeply a child 6 shame. "All too often we don’t see or hear what is really 7 our children," says Kaoru Yamamoto, a psychologist（心理学家）at the University of Colorado at Denver.
Yamamoto’s surveys 8 that children are afraid of losing 9 : being thought of as unattractive, stupid or 10 . It is more troubling to wet |
