Real-care Baby Simulation Blogs

In this order, include the following:

• Introduction Post describing: This electronic journal is all about (Your Baby’s Name).
  • Baby likes to…
  • Whether happy or sad baby will…
  • Mom or dad is most excited about…
  • Mom or dad is most nervous about…
  • These first days will be…
  • Include an image of your child’s birth certificate- with an appropriate name for your child, parent name, date, height, weight, and a witness
• Geneology Post recording: My Baby’s Family Tree
  • Great Grandparents, Grandparents, Mom or Dad (Your name), Baby’s Name
  • What does baby’s name mean?
  • Is it a family name? Why was it chosen?
• News Flash Post recording: The year Baby was Born…
  • Best Movie
  • Favorite Song
  • News Headlines
  • Top Fashions
  • Who is President?
  • Cost of a Gallon of milk:
  • Cost of a Gallon of gas:
  • Cost of a movie ticket:
  • Cost of a postage stamp:
  • Other costs:
• 5 DIFFERENT Photographs taken during your time with baby. Each photo should be labeled at the bottom with (who, what, when, where, and any other details or feelings). These should be taken a variety of places including but not not limited to:
  • Baby goes to School- What is it like caring for Baby at school?
  • Baby goes out with friends- What doe friends say or do?
  • Baby goes on errands- What do people do or say when you are out to dinner, at a relative’s house shopping etc.
  • Baby goes…-How did you feel caring for baby?
  • Baby goes... -How did others feel while you cared for baby?
• In an effort to analyze changes in students attitudes after the simulation create the following meaningful posts answering the questions below:

1. Was the parenting simulation more or less difficult than expected? How did your family react? At first? At the end? How were you treated in public? How would you feel about asking your family for help with a real child at this point in your life?
2. How did the baby affect your social life? Sleep? School/work? What adjustments did you have to make to your schedule/life?
3. How has the simulation affected your life plans? Predict hoe finishing school and moving toward completing your educational goals would be affected if you became a parent while still a student.
4. FEMALES ONLY: Eighty percent of teen mothers live below the poverty level for 10 years after they become parents. Think about you feel and behave when you don’t get what you want. Predict how you would respond to living a lifestyle based on your current income (or a job you could quality for now while getting an education.)
5. MALES ONLY: Think about how you feel and behave when you don’t get what you want. Predict how you would respond to living a lifestyle based on your current income (or job you could qualify for now) AND had to pay child support at 17 percent of your salary while getting and education.
6. Compare & contrast what it would be like to be a parent as a teen (what you just experienced), with what you think it would be like to be a parent as an adult? Consider:

How would the expenses of the first year be covered? (insurance, furniture items, consumables (diapers, formula), clothing, day care, etc.) Who would take care of the child during the first year?

1. I learned that responsible parents need to have KNOWLEDGE about…
2. I learned that responsible parents need to have these SKILLS…
3. I learned that these PERSONAL LIFE AND CIRCUMSTANCES can help a parent to be responsible…
4. I learned that responsible parents need to have these ATTITUDES...
5. Discuss with your parents how they handled you as an infant. How did they handle the stress? Is there anything they would do differently? Any other suggestions they would recommend?
6. Overall thoughts about the experience/conclusion.

Last, add any “additional activities” from provided list, (for BABYSITTER payment or extra credit) should be posted after the items listed above.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES –

40 points required if student used a BABYSITTER/otherwise counted as extra credit. Use a separate post for each of your activities in your electronic baby journal.

The following activities are each worth 10 points.

1. Make/design a birth announcement. Work must be computer generated. Include baby’s name, parent’s names, date & time of birth, graphics/artwork
2. Take your baby to a variety of public places. Survey at least ten people (not students/teenagers) and ask the following:

• Have they seen the Realcare Baby previously? How did they learn about the Baby? What is their opinion about the project?

1. Watch an episode of Sesame Street and write a summary. 1) List the date of the episode, 2) What was the theme of the episode? 3) What was the lesson? 4) What other topics were featured on the same episode? 5) Overall, do you think Sesame Street is an appropriate show for a young child to watch? Why/why not?
2. Visit a baby/hardware store and find the costs of at least eight different safety items used to “baby-proof” your home. Consider all rooms in your house and the amount needed for each room. Include the number of each item and calculate the actual cost of these items if you purchased the quantities needed for your home. Include the total cost. Itemize your list and show your work. List any resources used.
3. Review a children’s book written for children age three to five. List the title of the book and the author. Then explain the following for the book: 1) theme (example: friendship), 2) lesson (what was the message of the book), 3) characters (were the characters appropriate etc.), 4) Overall, do you think this is an appropriate book for a three to five year old? Why or why not?

The following activities are each worth 20 points.-LIST RESOURCES USED FOR EACH!

1. Visit the American Academy of Pediatrics website (http://www.aap.org/). Find the “children’s health topics” section and select a topic of interest to you. Print the article and complete the same style of summary as assigned for the “current event” assignment in class. 1) Language of the discipline, 2) Big idea, 3) Details, 4) Unanswered questions, 5) Theme. Attach your summary to the article.
2. Contact at least three local day-care providers and ask the following? (Be sure to list the name of each daycare provider).

• What is the weekly cost – for an infant, toddler, and preschooler?
• Is part-time care available, or only full-time?
• What hours are available for care?
• How many other children will be cared for?
• What is the youngest age child? What about school-age children?
• Is the provider licensed? Why or why not?

1. Using http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus , or http://www.aap.org/, or a health care provider, determine what foods a child will eat during the first year of life. What is the timeline for introducing these foods? Visit a grocery store and determine the cost of feeding a baby for one day at the age of 3 months? 6 months? 9 months? One year? Be specific about your resources. (Print the first page of the article you find on the website and attach with your work.)
2. Using http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus , or http://www.aap.org/ ,or a pediatrician/health care provider, determine what the health needs are for the first two years of life? What is the cost and time table for immunizations? What is the cost and time table for well-baby visits? What is the cost for a sick baby visit?? What is the most common illness for a baby? Be specific about your resources. (Print the first page of the article you find on the website and attach with your work.)