Question: For counselors who work with families that include children of different ages, which of the following statements is true? Need Assignment Help?
Group of answer choices
- Parents should consistently enforce a limited number of rules regardless of the age of the child.
- Parents need to treat all children in the family the same way (e.g., granting privileges, etc.) or they risk sending the message that they favor one child over another.
- Parents need to be flexible as children get older and adjust their rules and expectations to developmentally changing competencies and needs.
- Parents can relax their control of older children because these children have passed the critical period of the preschool years when learning rules is most important.