The Child Development Lesson Box whiteboard teaching package includes:

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The Content of the Child Development Products.
Each presentation is broken into lesson size units. When you click on the button on the opening page you go directly to your chosen unit. The units and specific content for each presentation are:

1. Planning a Family
The units are: Family Planning, Infertility and Genetics. These units cover factors to consider before starting a family, contraception, the menstrual cycle and fertility, the embryo, reasons for infertility and treatments e.g. IVF and genetic abnormalities and counselling.
2. Pregnancy
The units are: Pregnancy Care, Body Changes and Tests/Decisions. These units include dating pregnancy, health during pregnancy including food safety, disease, smoking, alcohol and drugs, hormonal changes, body changes antenatal checks for mother and developing baby, and hospital or home birth.
3. Birth and the New Baby
The units are: Pregnancy and Labour. These units include How the baby grows eats and breathes in the womb, the first second and third stages of labour, post natal checks and care, sleep patterns following birth and reflex actions.
4. Caring for Babies
The units are: Basic Care, Feeding, Comfort and Equipment. These units include the basic needs of a new baby, breast and bottle feeding, soothing a baby, changing, bathing, clothes and equipment.
5. Nature/ Nurture
The units are: Nature  Nurture, Genetics, Environment and Twins. The units include the effects on the child of genetic factors and the environment, factors influencing development and consideration of twins raised in different environments.
6. Sensory, Social, Intellectual and Emotional Development
The units are Senses, Social Development, Intellectual Growth and Emotional Development. These units cover the development of sight and hearing from birth, learning social rules and skills, the value of siblings, developing thinking skills, the issue of TV and modern society and emotional development.
7. Physical Development
The units are: The Stages, First Steps, Gross Motor Skills, and Fine Motor Skills. These units include milestones of development, physical development from birth to 5 years including head control, walking, hand eye coordination, development of hand control and manipulative skills.
8. Early Play
The units are: Why Play? Toys, the 1st 9 months, 9 -18 months. The units include how child learn through play, types of play, types of toys and their benefits, toy safety, choosing toys for the right age and ability of the child and toys that help development from birth to 18 months.
9. Pre-School Play
The units are: Play to 3 and Pre-School. The units include different types of play e.g. physical, imaginative and social play, toys to stimulate play and development from 18 months to 5 years and the development of social play, role play and cooperative play.
10. Food and Diet
The units are: First Foods, Food Safety, Nutrition, and Food Needs. The units cover weaning, safe storage and preparation, nutrients and their function and the importance of a healthy balanced diet for children.
11. Food Issues
The units are: Food Choices, Healthy Food, and Social Eating. The units include Food intolerance, additives, obesity, avoiding sugars the importance of exercise, choosing healthy foods, diseases caused by malnourishment, mealtimes as a positive experience and faddy eaters.
12. Keeping Safe
The units are: Diseases, A Sick Child and Safety. The units include childhood diseases and how they are spread, immunisation, looking after a sick child, meningitis, accidents in the home and outdoors, consumer safety e.g. kitemarks and clothing and shoes.
13. Family Life
The units are: Family Life and Family Types. These units include The structures of different families, cultural differences, the importance of the family in caring for the child, nuclear families, extended families, on parent families, fostering, step families, adoption, divorce, marriage and the changing role of carers.
14. Parenting Issues
The units are: Maternity, The Home, Early years and Special Families. The units include Issues dilemmas and decisions, pregnancy screening and abnormalities, the mother's health before and after birth, the home environment for the child, TV, immunisation, potty training, one parent families, children with special needs and learning and physical disabilities.
15. Managing Behaviour
The units are: Misbehaving, Self esteem and Problems for Children. The units cover good discipline, the issue of how to deal with misbehaviour, the importance of praising children, enabling self confidence and self esteem, reasons for insecurity, jealousy, rivalry and other factors causing poor behaviour, the importance of security and the effects on the child's future.
16. Community and Children
The units are: Going to Work and The Caring Options. These units include issues about being a working parent different types of child care e.g. child minders, nursery etc and the role of social services.