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Read these lines: "If you want your children to read, then read to them. Let them see you reading. Keep books in your home. Talk about your favorite books. If you want your children to be healthy, then let them see you eat right and exercise, and spend time engaging in physical fitness activities together. The same holds true for qualities like kindness, courtesy, and honesty." Which statement best expresses the main idea of the quoted lines?

AReading is the one habit every parent must pass to a child
BChildren need formal lessons to develop kindness and honesty
CHealthy eating matters more for children than reading habits
DParents teach children best by living out the behavior they want
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Parents teach children best by living out the behavior they want
1. The quoted lines give parallel advice: to raise a reader, read where your children can see you; to raise a healthy child, let them see you eat right and exercise. 2. The same pattern is then extended to kindness, courtesy, and honesty. 3. Every example shares one idea: children pick up what they watch their parents do, option D. 4. Option A is the trap of stopping at the first example; reading is one case of the pattern, not the whole point. 5. Options B and C rank or formalize things in ways the quoted lines never do. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 1e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 6 "Learning", section 6.4 Observational Learning (Modeling)_
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