This course provides students with skills and information to enable them to care for and nurture the infant child. Emphasis is placed on child safety, nutrition, and growth and development. Additional content includes care of the sick or injured child, parental rights and responsibilities, consumer skills, and building positive family relationships. Content includes healthy lifestyle and pre and postnatal care; stages of physical, social, cognitive, and emotional development of infants; positive emotional development of mother; communication, interpersonal and coping skills; responsible decision-making; parenting skills and care-giving including prevention of child abuse and neglect and infant mortality; family relationships; childcare, safety, and hygiene; disease prevention and control; health-related community resources; and consumer skills.

This course provides students with skills and information to enable them to care for and nurture the toddler and preschool-age child. Emphases are placed on child safety, nutrition, and growth and development. Additional content includes care of the sick or injured child, parental rights and responsibilities, consumer skills, and building positive family relationships. Content includes healthy lifestyle of family; stages of physical, social, cognitive, and emotional development of toddler and preschool-age child; positive emotional development of mother; communication, interpersonal and coping skills; responsible decision-making; parenting skills and care-giving including prevention of child abuse and neglect; family relationships; childcare, safety, and hygiene; disease prevention and control; behavior management; child learning and play experiences; health-related community resources; and consumer skills.