When your children are grown up they want to live their own lives, and if you continue to be as interested in them as you were when they were young, you are likely to become a burden to them, unless they are unusually callous.

• 当你的孩子们已经长大，他们就要过他们自己的生活，如果你还是像在他们小的时候那样对他们感兴趣，你就可能变成他们的包袱，除非他们是特别地麻木不仁。