Social Sciences and Humanities

Raising Healthy Children (HPC3O)

Grade: 11
Credits:1.0
Type: Open
Language of Study: English
Prerequisites: None
Understand the skills and knowledge parents, guardians, and caregivers need. Learn about maternal health, pregnancy, birth, and the early years of human development and child rearing. Preview Course
Interested in taking this course?
  • If you are a student already enrolled in an Ontario High School, please contact your school about taking courses with TVO ILC.
  • If your goal is to earn a high school diploma or if you are a homeschool student, an academic assessment of your application must be done before choosing courses, please visit Apply Now to start your application.
CAD $40.00
$40.00
Admin Fee
Course fees are partially subsidized for most Ontario residents. The administrative fee covers the cost for us to process your application.
Grade: 11
Credits:1.0
Type: Open
Language of Study: English
Prerequisites: None
Understand the skills and knowledge parents, guardians, and caregivers need. Learn about maternal health, pregnancy, birth, and the early years of human development and child rearing. Preview Course

Course fees are partially subsidized for most Ontario residents. The administrative fee covers the cost for us to process your application.

Interested in taking this course?
  • If you are a student already enrolled in an Ontario High School, please contact your school about taking courses with TVO ILC.
  • If your goal is to earn a high school diploma or if you are a homeschool student, an academic assessment of your application must be done before choosing courses, please visit Apply Now to start your application.

Course Overview

This course focuses on the skills and knowledge parents, guardians, and caregivers need, with particular emphasis on maternal health, pregnancy, birth, and the early years of human development (birth to six years old). Through study and practical experience, you will learn how to meet the developmental needs of young children, communicate with them, and effectively guide their early behaviour. You will develop your research skills through investigations related to caregiving and child rearing.

Course Preview

Course Syllabus

1.1   Preparing for parenting

1.2   Importance of relationships

1.3   What is family?

1.4   Child rearing - past and present

1.5   Could you be a single parent?

2.1   Pregnancy and birth

2.2   Bringing baby home

2.3   Human growth and development

2.4   Caring for young children

2.5   Nutrition for young children

3.1   Communicating with children

3.2   Parenting styles

3.3   Discipline

3.4   Childhood socialization

3.5   Teaching literacy

4.1   Challenges of parenting

4.2   Raising a child with special needs

4.3   Child abuse and neglect

4.4   Society’s role in family life

4.5   Being a parent

CAD $40.00
$40.00
Admin Fee


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