Young children often fail to plan, even when doing so would facilitate their problem-solving performance. Discuss three reasons that children may fail to plan

What will be an ideal response?

Any three of the following: (1) planning requires inhibition of the tendency to act immediately, and the ability to inhibit prepotent actions develops slowly; (2) children think they can succeed without planning; (3) planning may take more effort than it's worth because they may fail to execute the plan properly, or they may not be able to solve the problem even if they plan; (4) children are not good at cooperating with others; and (5) children do not typically reap the consequences of their poor planning because parents bail them out.