Health templates (preschool,school age years & reflection)
1. The Preschool Years (3 to 5 Years Old)
Discuss the health and safety practices that you will implement for your preschool child.
1. Water is dangerous for children if parent do not take the proper precautions, “Nearly 1,000 kids die each
year by drowning. And most drowning occurs in home swimming
pools.”( http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/outdoor/water_safety.html) Keep children safe are
important. So when children are near the sink, the toilet bowl, or bathroom, it is very important to
supervisor them well. The bathroom is full of dangerous for every child, so never leave a child near the
bathroom or in the tub. Next, hot water can be dangerous, too because children’s skins are thinner than
adults and they burn very easily, “Just 3 seconds of exposure to hot tap water that's 140°F (60°C) can
give a child a third-degree burn.”( http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/outdoor/water_safety.html#)
Moreover, it is significant to teach children water safety, such as parents should tell them that do not run
or push around the pool and be careful when the floor wet.
2. Infection diseases can spread in a variety of ways. So hand washing is the most important way to reduce
the spread of infections. Then it is very important encourage preschoolers to focus on hand washing
after they use the toilet and before they eat or handle food. Since preschoolers have the ideas to wash
hands, they often turn their attentions to the exciting activities. According to the text book, Healthy
Foundations in Early Childhood Settings, “for preschool and school age children, the educator’s role
evolves from one of physically washing their hands to one of encouraging, supervising, and modeling
effective hand washing.”(P132)
3. Preschool children are still not having the sense of dangerous, they are learning about the surroundings,
so it is important to teach them the safety issues. Fire safety is very important because children are
naturally curious and this can lead them to dangerous events, “Preschooler in particular should be taught
to stay away from ovens and stoves while they are being used. They should never touch matches,
lighters or candles.” (http://www.ehow.com/info_12015406_five-important-safety-issues-teach-
preschoolers.html) In addition, if children have found the matches or lighters, parents should ask them
to put them away and tell them the important of safety.
4. Learning to cross a street is a lesson that every preschooler should know. In preparation for children to
go to kindergarten, they have to learn about traffic, how to cross the street, and the role of crossing.
Every time, when crossing a street, it is very important to explain to children the importance of crossing
at a street rather than go through the middle of the street. Show to children where the flash lights, how
the light buttons look like and the importance of waiting the red light to green light. In addition,
preschoolers should understand the basic rules of crossing a street that does not have a traffic light. It is
essential to safety, “children are still learning their surroundings, so it is important to teach them a set of
general guidelines that will help protect them throughout the
day.”( http://www.ehow.com/info_12015406_five-important-safety-issues-teach-preschoolers.html)
5. Children love to swimming, so drowning is a leading cause of accidental death, “although the greatest
percentage of drowning occur in natural aquatic settings, (e.g. oceans, lakes, quarries, etc.) drowning do
occur in swimming pools.”(http://www.safekid.org/drowning.htm) Children drowning and near
drowning can happen in a second. So it is very important to watch children in and around water. For
example, never leave children in a tub, in or around water because pools and spas are attractive to
2. children. Next, do not allow children to swim alone in the pool or in the hot tub. Moreover, keep the
bathroom doors or laundry room closed.
The School Age Years (6 to 12 Years Old)
As a parent, what are some of your concerns regarding your child’s health and safety during the School Age years?
1) Children around 6 years old to 9 years old are not fully understand the dangers of the world around them.
So it is very important to watch and explain to children why safety is important and prevent children get
injure. When children at home, parents need to pay much attention because children at this stage are
more independent and like to try new things. Burn prevention plays an important role when children at
home, “young children have thinner skin than older children and adults, their skin burns at lower
temperatures and more deeply.”(http://www.safekids.org/safety-basics/big-kids/at-home/burn-
safety.html) Here are some suggestions that help children safe:
Do not allow children use microwave until they are fully understand the dangerous.
Supervisor children when they are in the kitchen, around the electrical and outlets.
Keep matches out of children’s sights or other materials that cause fire.
Teacher children what they need to do when they hear the fire alarm
2) Another safety parents need to concern is the falls prevention for children, “fall causes more than 3
million childhood injuries every year.”
(http://www.homesafetycouncil.org/safetyguide/sg_falls_w002.asp) As children get older, they are more
active, curious and play around. They never know the dangerous of head injuries which lead to death.
So when children at the playground make sure no hazard things, supervisor’s children the whole time,
and provide safe places to play. In addition, for the furniture safety, make sure no toys or items that
attract children on top of the furniture don’t have an area that children can climb on and do not place the
furniture away from windows. Last but not least, always have the window guards that protect children
from seeing outside or from injuries.
3) Children love to swimming, so drowning is a leading cause of accidental death, “although the greatest
percentage of drowning occur in natural aquatic settings, (e.g. oceans, lakes, quarries, etc.) drowning do
occur in swimming pools.”(http://www.safekid.org/drowning.htm) Children drowning and near
drowning can happen in a second. So it is very important to watch children in and around water. For
example, never leave children in a tub, in or around water because pools and spas are attractive to
children. Next, do not allow children to swim alone in the pool or in the hot tub. Moreover, keep the
bathroom doors or laundry room closed.
3. 4) It is very important to protect children safety from the cause of germs and food poisoning, “unprepared
foods cause up to 81 million people to get sick each year, with almost 9000 of these illness leading to
death. Children are among the people most at risk for serious illness from food poisoning.”
(http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/nutrition/food_safety.html) Here are some safety techniques that
protect children:
a) Do not give children undercook food such as meats, food or eggs
b) Wash hand property. For example, wash hand for twenty seconds with soap and warm water.
c) Do not buy or use foods without intact packaging.
5) Injuries and deaths from fires and carbon monoxide may a big problem in winter. Since as many as
people use heater, or fireplaces or chimneys, it expands the dangerous quickly. It states that, “the U.S.
Fire Administration (USFA) reports that there have been more than 150 home fires and 200 deaths in the United
States since Thanksgiving.”( http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/winter/winter_health_safety.html) To
keep children safe, it is very important follow the instruction here:
Install smoke alarm ---when the fuel burning have came to home, the alarm should ring which parents should
know there is problem at home. So this minor the spread of fuel burning.
Keep heaters on a level so that children cannot grap it to open of play with it.
4. Reflection Paper (1 page)
Think about how might your child’s development might be different if s/he was raised by people with different socioeconomic,
ethnic or cultural backgrounds. How would the concept of the “whole child” play a role?
(Please avoid stereotypes)
High income and social status affect my child’s development. High income and social status determines living
conditions, health and educations. First, high income and social status determines living conditions such as safe
housing and nutrition foods. Comparing to poor living conditions, parents do not have quality living conditions
which causes children malnourished, “Malnourishment is especially damaging during infancy because growth is
so rapid during this time.” (Child Development: A Chronological Approach, p116) Second, high income and
social status associate with better health such as dental and medical care, “The healthiest populations are those
in societies which are prosperous and have an equitable distribution of wealth.”(Healthy Foundations in Early
Childhood Settings, p5) Poor health causes young children are infectious disease, “measles kills nearly 1
million children annually but ban be prevented with vaccinations.” (Child Development: A Chronological
Approach, p117) Third, high income and social status affect children’s educations because if the families have
much money, they of course sent their children to a well design environment to study. So the children’s
knowledge is much expanding than poor families. According to the textbook, Healthy Foundations in Early
Childhood Settings, it says that, “it increase opportunities for job and income security and job satisfaction, and
it improves people’s ability to access and understand information to help keep them healthy.” (P6) In
conclusion, living conditions, health and educations are connecting to each other that affect child’s development.
Cultural backgrounds affect the child’s development because every country has different cultural backgrounds,
they believe different values and phylospphy. For example, in China, the curriculum for children are based on
teacher directed, “Children seldom work independently or in small groups on self-selected tasks. Instead, the
emphasis is upon teacher-directed, total group instruction. All children are expected to do the same thing at the
same time. For example, in a typical art lesson the teacher demonstrates how to fold and twist tissue paper into
butterflies. She then gives guidance to those children doing it incorrectly before proceeding to the next step of
pasting the butterfly onto paper and drawing antennae. Drawing lessons often consist of children copying an
object drawn by the teacher.”( http://www.pbs.org/kcts/preciouschildren/earlyed/read_vaughan.html)
Comparing to Ontario that its curriculum is based on children-directed, children are learning to be active and
teachers discover their interests by they are playing. As see, the cultural background is different, children may
be taught in different methods.
6. Self evaluation:
The strengths I have of this assignment are having the basic knowledge of child’s development and the health, safety
that parents need to concern for each year of children. First of all, I have the basic knowledge of child’s development;
how those three components affect every child’s develop, such as, physical, emotional/social or intellectual. Second, I
know what are the healthy and safety that parents need to concern in this assignment. From doing this assignment back
and forth, child’s health and safety are important for every year and every time. Still, there are challenges for me. It is
the writing because since my vocabulary is poor, it is hard for me to use some different words or phrase. For example,
you will see I use “it is very important because...” a lot. How to improve my vocabulary? It is going to read more and
write more. From this assignment, I have to prove my example from the any reference that make me have the ability to
read more and write. It is a practical that improve reading and writing.
