【正确答案】Once the ideal child was seen and not heard. But the times and the culture have changed. More and more often a child is seen on national television and heard roaring around the world. Sons and daughters have become the projection of their parents' dreams and the repository of their hopes. We are moving, in a cultural sense, in the direction of having every kid be a star. Pushed by the parents to achieve or treated like tiny adults, some of today's children are paying the price.