Parents who patiently point out important features of a task and suggest strategies have children who
a. more often monitor their own performance
b. less often discuss ways to approach problems
c. less often use cognitive self-regulation skills
d. more often passively approach new tasks.

a. more often monitor their own performance

Explanation: when children are given an ability to tackle problems on their own their learn to regulate or monitor their own performance .

They learn to work independently, to think for themselves ,to resolve school problems on their own and this equips them with skills that they need in school and in life to manage their own performance without relying more on being shown how to do things.

The parent here act as a director who points them towards the right direction and make suggestion but they take control of the whole task by using their own cognitive level to figure out the whole task .

i think it should be c