Meaning + pronoun based approach:
Some parents have a very difficult time coming to grips with the fact that their offspring have become adults; consequently,they see their children as they did during the children's adolescence.
Sentence is trying to say parents have a difficult time with their kids being adults hence they see them as they did during the kids' adolescence: hence simple past 'did' gives more clarity and pronoun 'they' is fine as 'children' would be the noun here (A) they see
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Some parents have a very difficult time coming to grips with the fact that their offspring have become adults; consequently,they see their children as they did during the children's adolescence.
Sentence is trying to say parents have a difficult time with their kids being adults hence they see them as they did during the kids' adolescence: hence simple past 'did' gives more clarity and pronoun 'they' is fine as 'children' would be the noun here (A) they see
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