Oh! I looked at her for a few moments, wondering how I got into this mess (困境), when suddenly an idea came to me.
Picking up two baskets from the living room, I explained, "When everyone is born, he or she has a little basket. This little one here is yours. The big one is mine. As you grow, so does the basket. You can see your little basket is inside mine because when you were born, there were too many things you couldn't do for yourself. I did everything you couldn't do on your own. "
She nodded.
"Well, as you grew older and began to do some things on your own, I began placing a few more things in your basket. When you learned to tie your shoes, that went in your basket. "
She said softly, "I can tie my own shoes. "
"Right. As you grow older, there will be more and more things you must do on your own. " As I spoke, I gradually took her basket out of mine and handed it to her. "You will finally carry your own basket with things only you can do. "
She looked up at me and said, "I understand. There are some things that I have to do by myself because they are in my basket. "
【文章大意】本文是记叙文。作者的女儿在处理和朋友之间的关系时遇到了一个棘手的问题, 于是她要作者帮忙解决; 作者采用了一种开导的方法让女儿去解决自己的问题。