父母何乐而不为呢
“why don't we just go with the flow?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
为人父母 要是孩子年纪差不多 能做朋友
“As a parent, if the children are about the same age and they can be friends,”
父母 何乐而不为 呢
“why don't we just go with the flow?”
我儿子去年生日的时候 全班同学都来我们家了
“On my son's birthday last year, all his classmates came to our house.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Chinese parents place great value on cultivating healthy peer networks for their children, seeing child socialization as beneficial for the entire family.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
why not go along with it / why wouldn't one be glad to do it
A formal four-character idiom (chengyu) used rhetorically to mean something is mutually beneficial and obviously desirable.
Softens the rhetorical question and invites implicit consensus from the listener.
