What did parents do which was most successful in getting their adolescent to stop smoking?
a. looked the other way
b. did not smoke themselves and made it clear they disapproved of adolescent smoking
c. hid the cigarettes of their adolescent
d. had an intervention with the adolescent's peers
Ques. 2What can parents do to reduce the chance of oppositional defiant disorder?
a. monitor their child's peers/exposure to delinquent models
b. restrict their child's TV time
c. impose a curfew of 10:00 P.M.
d. give their child time to grow up/don't make a big deal out of it
Ques. 3Which is NOT one of the seven basic skills all parents should be responsible for teaching their children?
a. focus and self-control
b. seeing an issue from another's point of view
c. taking on challenges
d. learning to laugh
Ques. 4Boomerang children return to the family of origin to live as adults primarily because:
a. they are happiest in that context
b. their siblings live there
c. of economic reasons
d. they do not have the emotional skills to live on their own
Ques. 5When a child talks back to his or her parents and the parents do not correct this behavior, the parents have decided to let their child grow up to:
a. have a healthy self-concept
b. be disobedient to authority
c. be assertive
d. be expressive of his or her needs
Ques. 6The future of parenting will involve all of the following EXCEPT:
a. more children reared in single-family contexts
b. more children in day care/after-school programs
c. increases in income to single-family households via government priority
d. more children who are less compliant to authority
Ques. 7All of the following are factors contributing to negative outcomes for children reared in single families EXCEPT:
a. lower intelligence
b. lack of supervision
c. fewer economic resources
d. less extended family support