A nurse has completed a teaching session for parents on school-age childrens expected developmental milestones. The parents need further teaching if they indicate which behavior isexpected in a school-age child?

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The preschool child engages in fantasy and magical thinking. The school-age child moves away from this type of thinking and becomes more skeptical and logical. Belief in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny ends in this period of development. The school-age child goes through a period in which profanity and dirty jokes are explored. This behavior is not unusual for the school-age child. The school-age child has a sense of humor. His increased language mastery and increased logic allow for appreciation of plays on words, jokes, and incongruities. The school-age child understands conservation or that properties of objects do not change when their order, form, or appearance does.

A Nurse Has Completed a Teaching Session for Parents on School-Age