Providing a Nurturing and Caring Environment

1. Providing a Nurturing and Caring Environment Grade 11 Family Studies

2. Nurturing and Caring for Children • Reminder, nurturance is caring for a child’s emotional needs and caring for a child is meeting a child’s physical needs. • Nurturing young children effectively involves teaching, comforting and playing with young children in keeping with the child’s levels of development.

3. Play Play is the work of children. It consists of those activities performed for self-amusement that have behavioral, social, and physical rewards. Play is child-directed, and the rewards come from within the individual child; it is enjoyable and spontaneous.

4. What do children learn through play Play is an important part of the childhood development. Through play children learn about shapes, colors, cause and effect, and themselves. Besides cognitive thinking, play helps the child learn social and psychomotor skills. It is a way of communicating joy, fear , sorrow, and anxiety.

5. Question 1. What are at least 3 reasons you think children might spend less time playing outside now than they did 10 or 20 years ago?

6. Play • Nowadays, children of all ages and from every socioeconomic background often prefer television, computers, and battery-operated toys to self-directed, imaginative, and creative play.

7. Why is this bad? This tendency leaves children developmentally deprived, because without imaginative and fantasy play children are unable to explore their world and express themselves (thoughts and feelings, hopes and fears, likes and dislikes).

8. Play Through play, decisions are made without penalty or fear of failure. Play allows children to gain control of their thoughts, feelings, actions, and helps them achieve self-confidence.

9. Games around the world Games are found in every culture of the world. Children play variations of the same games at the same age in many different countries.

10. Games around the world • Chasing Games: One person chases others • Tag, Capture the flag, hide and seek, grounders • Circle Games: One person in the middle of or outside a circle must do something that involves others • Duck-duck goose, marbles • Games played with a ball: Ball kicked, ball hit with stick, ball thrown and caught • Soccer, baseball, football • Mental Games: Using the mind in some way • Guessing games like: Eye spy, heads up seven up • Pretending Games: Universal activity; boys and girls practicing roles, taking on roles as adults or children • Playing house, nurse, firefighter, teacher, doctor

11. Games around the world • Sensing Games: Recognizing something by touch • Pin the tail on the donkey • Strength Games: Match of strength between children • Arm wrestling, tug-o-war • Jumping Rope Games • Skipping, Double dutch • Square Jumping • Hopscotch

12. Question 2. Play helps children develop physically, intellectually, socially and emotionally. Examine the list of games around the world. Describe the areas of development that each game enhances.

13. Question 3. Make a list of at least 5 games you liked to play as a childe (or still like to play). What type of game is each one? What did you learn from each of your favorite games? What skills are developed from this game

14. Identifying Patterns of Play Solitary Play Onlooker Play Parallel Play Associative Play Cooperative Play

15. Playing Safely It wasn’t long ago that all children could play freely outside their homes.

16. Playing Safely Although many dangers lurked in the neighborhoods, playing unsupervised was common. Children were warned to be careful but caregivers expected that cuts and scrapes were all in a day’s play.

17. Playing Safely Today’s parents are warned of the many dangers of unsupervised play. They are aware that water is polluted, soil may be contaminated, and child molesters lurk where children play. Every year, children are injured or die while at play.

18. Playing Safely Children have been suffocated by collapsing sand, or smothered in a toy chest or in an abandoned refrigerator. They have been killed when playing with loaded and unlocked guns or killed or injured by land mines.

19. Playing Safely They have been backed over by vehicles, crushed by farm equipment, or fallen to their deaths from high places. The cords of their coats or snow suits, or even the strings of blinds in their bedrooms can be lethal.

20. Playing Safely Children are vulnerable to accidents and injury in almost every play setting. Even properly constructed playground equipment can be dangerous.

21. Playground – Dangers Each year in Canada thousands of children get hurt on playground slides, monkey bars, or swings. Some children have died when they became entangled in ropes or skipping ropes attached to playground equipment. Loose clothing, hoods, scarves, drawstrings, mitten cords, ropes and skipping ropes can all strangle a child.

22. Playground – Dangers • Safety Tips: • Remove cords and drawstrings from children’s hoods, hats and jackets. • Tuck in all clothing that can get caught on playground equipment. • Have children wear a neck warmer instead of a scarf.

23. Playground – Dangers • Safety Tips: • Take off bicycle helmets before children use playground equipment. They can get trapped and strangle a child. • Make sure children do not tie ropes or skipping ropes to slides and other playground equipment. • Supervise children on the playground. • Teach children how to use playground equipment and play safely.

24. Playing Safely The loss or injury of a child will affect a family forever. After any incident, new safety regulations are developed to prevent the same tragedy from happening again. But children are carefree and often play without thought of danger. It is up to parents, teachers, and other adults to take action to provide children with safe play environments, supervise play, and warn children of danger.

25. CPR / First Aid CPR and First Aid Training is important for all parents and caregivers to learn in case there is an emergency in the home. We will be conducting this course on June 7thwith Mr. Wilks and Mrs. Bailey. It will be all day from 8:45 – 3:30. This course will be free of charge. This course is mandatory for all Grade 11 Family Studies Students.

26. CPR First Aid Prior to this course we will cover some measures to help children with health and safety in the meantime.

27. Preventing Accidents and Handling Emergencies Answer the questions in your booklet from Chapter 20 in your Developing Child Textbook as well as“Taking the Right Steps in an Emergency”. Hand in to green basket.