暑假到了，早高峰的公交地铁上，人们经常看到父母带着孩子背着大书包啃着汉堡去赶补习班的身影。假期的孩子过得好像比学期还要忙碌。

Hurried child syndrome refers to a condition in which parents overschedule their children's lives, push them hard for academic success, and expect them to behave and react as miniature adults.

“忙碌儿童综合征”指的是家长将孩子的生活安排得过满、极力要求孩子在学业上取得佳绩，并且希望孩子表现得像小大人一样的现象。

The concept of the hurried child was first proposed by child psychologist David Elkind in his now-classic 1981 book The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast.

“忙碌儿童”这个概念是由心理学家大卫o艾尔金德在其1981年出版的经典著作《忙碌儿童：成长得太快》首次提出的。

One symptom of the hurried child syndrome is forcing pre-school children to constantly take classes and perform other "enrichment" exercises to help them prepare for school. This is also called hothousing and the superbaby syndrome.

“忙碌儿童综合征”的症状之一就是强迫学龄前儿童不断参加各种辅导班和特长培训，以帮助他们为入学做好准备。这种现象也被称为“温室培育”和“超级宝贝综合征”。