Wk4: My Connections to Play



 2 Quotes: 1).Playing reduces stress, improves life, and increases creativity. Who doesn't want that? Stevanne Auerbach, Dr. Toy 2). Along with milk and vegetables kids need a steady diet of rocks and worms.
Rocks need skipping,
Holes need digging,
Water needs splashing,
Bugs and Frogs and slimy stuff need finding.
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I always had someone with me outside and encouraging me to explore, but to be safe. I was the kid who was not afraid of picking up bugs, snakes or anything else and either trying to keep it or chasing the other kids around the yard with it in my hand.
I feel that play is different now than when I was a child, children don't go outside and play that much any more. They have way to many other things to occupy them, they have video games, computers and other electronic materials. I would hope that young children would be encouraged to get outside and play more and to explore the beauty of outside. I still love the outdoors, I love to get out and look at trees, bird watch and work in my flower garden. I am constantly collecting things to share with my students, we have snake skin, bird nest, bee hive, pine cones, leaves and even dead bugs that are in bug boxes. I love for my students to get outside and play, explore and learn. It is very important to get out and play.

6161 Child Development and Public Health Wk 2

Nutrition/Malnutrition
Effects of malnutrition can be devastating and permanent. Whether during the pregnancy or first year of life, it can have a profound effect on a child's health as well as their ability to learn, communicate, socialize, reasoning and the way they adapt with their environment.
We have to secure their survival, but ensure that they have a healthy and stimulating childhood. This will prepare them for the future and help them to contrubute to the social and economic development of their countries and communities. There were 925 million hungry people in 2010 abd 578 million are in Asia and the Pacific. (pdfcast.org)
In South Asia, 78 million out of 150 million childrenin developing countries are still malnourished. The leading causes of mortality are respiratory infections, diarrhea and birth related conditions.(Unicef, 2000). South Asia is the worst off among all the regions in the developing world including Sub-Saharan Africa. One-third of children in South Asia suffer from low birth weight. Low birth weight is inextricably intertwined with and is indeed a manifestation of maternal under nutrition.
I have learned that if a child comes to my classroom that could possibly be malnutritioned, that could be a leading cause of him or her to have not developed properly. As an early childhood professional, I must help to get the word out that no child should be hungry and no family should have to worry about not being feed properly or at all.
http://www.worldhunger.or/
http://www.pdfcast.org/
http://www.unescobkk.org/
http://www.unicef.org/