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让孩子们爱上家务的软件 Apps That Help Kids Like Chores Few parents see digital games as a promising way to pry kids off the couch─much less inspire them to be useful around the house. But a new generation of chore apps, designed primarily for the under-12 set, aims to turn kids into bed makers, laundry folders and toy picker-uppers by offering rewards ranging from funny collectible monsters to redeemable digital coins. 没有多少家长会把电子游戏当成让孩子们离开沙发的好办法，更不用说让电子游戏来激励孩子们在家里发挥作用了。不过如今有了新一代的主要针对12岁以下孩童开发的家政软件，这些软件通过为孩子们提供奖励，比如可收集的好玩怪兽或者可兑换的电子货币，希望把孩子们变成整理床铺、折叠衣服和收拾玩具的“高手”。 Brooke Wise of Dallas says a $3.99 smartphone app called You Rule Chores has her three children, Justin, 12, Rafaela, 9, and Will, 4, actually competing to see who can do more housework. The children were involved from the start, helping their mom enter the list of chores, including laundry, cleaning up after the family dog and loading and unloading the dishwasher. Each child chose one of the apps six avatars, which include a pink kitty, a robot scientist and an intergalactic policeman. 达拉斯的布鲁克?怀斯(Brooke Wise)说，一款售价为3.99美元的叫做“家务，你说了算”(You Rule Chores)的智能手机软件真的让她的三个孩子──12岁的贾斯廷(Justin)、九岁的拉斐拉(Rafaela)和四岁的威尔(Will)──开始比赛谁可以做更多家务了。孩子们帮助妈妈完成待做的家务，包括洗衣服、清理宠物狗的排泄物、把脏碗碟放进洗碗机、将干净的碗碟收好，等等。每个孩子都在软件中选择了一个自己的虚拟化身，可供选择的化身一共有六个，包括一只粉红色小猫、一个机器人科学家和一名星际警察。 For chores completed─and approved by Ms. Wise─the app doles out digital coins the kids can redeem for rewards, such as TV time or a trip to the yogurt store. The siblings compete to see who wins the most coins and like seeing their avatars earn new strengths and skills each time they finish a job. Rafaela says she loves playing with her kitty avatar, and its fun getting paid in rewards. 完成家务并且得到怀斯的核准后，该软件就会相应奖励一些电子货币，孩子们可以用这些货币来兑换奖品，比如看电视的时间或去酸奶店喝酸奶的机会。三个人相互竞争，看谁赢得了最多的货币，他们也喜欢看到自己的虚拟化身在每次完成家务之后获得的新能量和新技能。拉斐拉说，她很享受操作她的小猫化身，另外，“能够得到报酬也十分有趣”。 For Ms. Wise, who says she was concerned about keeping the kids busy this summer, the results have been surprising: They make their bed, pick up the