NEW HEALTH PACKAGE • Baby Care

Topic
- Health
- Puberty & sexuality
Learning skills
- Self-management & future orientation
- Self-awareness
- Relationship skills
- Critical & reflective thinking
- Communication & expression
Activity type
- Group discussion
- Physical distancing
Materials
- Basic
- Printable downloads
Age
- 6 - 11 years
- 12 - 14 years
- 15 - 17 years
- 18+ years
5 - 15 minutes
2 - 4 players
Intermediate
Calm
Small (office, pavement)

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Everything you need to play this game

HEALTH B6 Baby Care Download health-20b6.pdf (29.6mb)
Chalk (optionally)
Tape (optionally)

A step-by-step guide to play the game

Gather the players in front of the panel and give them a few moments to identify the different situations. Give additional explanation if needed (see additional game information).

After exploring the panel, ask the children to formulate their opinion about the situations. Suggested questions:

What actions are beneficial for the development of the baby? Which are not? Are some of the situations risky? Why? Why not?
What are the problems young parents and their babies face (on the street)?
How can such problems be solved or avoided?

Finally, reflect with the players about the development of children. Suggested questions:

What is the importance of play in development? How can we stimulate this?
Why do babies need to be stimulated? What can be done to do this effectively? What should be avoided?
How can one stimulate a baby in a safe way?
Who needs to take the responsibility to stimulate a child (father, mother, brother, sister, kindergarten teacher, ...)?

Extra game information

On the panel, you can see different situations of parents with their babies. Certain actions stimulate the development of the baby, while other actions have a negative influence on the baby.

The situations are the following (starting in the top left corner, moving clockwise):

Breast feeding/bottle-feeding the baby
To smoke a cigarette
Neglect the baby
Give a bath
Medical check-up
Socializing
Throw the baby in the air
Child sits alone with a tablet
Child plays with a rattle
Fight between parents over the baby
Change your baby
Walk the streets in heavily polluted air
Comfort the baby
Protect the baby from a dog

Variations

Theatre: create a theatre stage with chalk or tape. Then, divide the players in pairs and let them pick a situation. They can give a twist to the situation by adding improvisation. After a while, shout 'SWITCH'. Another team continues to act out the story. Continue this process until the story has a proper end. To conclude, reflect and discuss which elements were present in the different roleplays.
Be the parent: give a teddybear to a pair of players. The players need to take care of the stuffed animal. Discuss their actions and reflect on good and bad parenting.

Specific learning objectives

Learn on the consequences of parental behaviour on a child's development

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