What is the most appropriate intervention for the parents of a 6-year-old child with precocious puberty?
A) Advise the parents to consider birth control for their daughter.
B) Explain the importance the child having relationships with same-age peers.
C) Reassure parents that there are no long-term consequences.
D) Counsel parents that there is no treatment currently available for this disorder.

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Despite the child's appearance,the child needs to be treated according to her chronologic age and to interact with children in the same age-group.An expected outcome is that the child will adjust socially by exhibiting age-appropriate behaviors and social interactions.Advising the parents of a 6-year-old to put their daughter on birth control is not appropriate and will not reverse the effects of precocious puberty.There may be both long-term physical and emotional consequences of this disorder.Treatment for precocious puberty is the administration of gonadotropin-releasing hormone blocker,which slows or reverses the development of secondary sexual characteristics and slows rapid growth and bone aging.

What Is the Most Appropriate Intervention for the Parents of a 6-Year-Old