What is the most effective way for parents to influence the values of their children?
a. Parents should present their values and give information to their children to support those values.
b. Parents should simply enforce their own personal values by laying down the law, without this type of enforcement children will ignore their parents.
c. Parents should reinforce the values that their children learn at school since children are more likely to be open to accepting the values of their peers and teachers rather than those of their parents.
d. Parents should provide several acceptable value frameworks for their children to choose from.
ANS: A
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