Imagine that you’re a marriage and family therapist. Your clients, a young couple with three school-age children, have decided to divorce due to irreconcilable differences. What advice would you give them to help minimize the impact of their impending divorce on their children?

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Chapter 6: Off to School: Cognitive and Physical Development in Middle Childhood
· Chapter 7: Expanding Social Horizons: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
· Chapter 8: Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive Development During Adolescence

VIDEOS:
· Leisure Information Network (2014, March). Ages and Stages of Middle Childhood 6 to 12 Year Olds [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtpiBtL_7zc
· Crash Course (2014, June 23). Adolescence: Crash course psychology #20 [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzyXGUCngoU