Children ages 1 to 3 years have an increasing sense of
a. privacy.
b. isolation.
c. dependence.
d. independence.
D
Toddlers are dealing with issues of autonomy and like to assert their newly discovered indepen-dence. They are not usually concerned with privacy or isolation. They are still very dependent on their parents, but less so than in infancy.
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