Why is it that by the time students finish high school they have spent more time learning to drive than they have learning the information they will need to become good parents? The Science of Your Life: Child Development and Healthy Relationships course is designed to address that problem. Although it is not a parenting course, it is designed to give middle and high school students information about children and child development. The material is contained in stand-alone modules that can be used by a range of educators. The modules promote critical thinking, language arts and quantitative skills while at the same time teaching students about how human beings are best nurtured and cared for years 0-5.
This program was developed based on our concern that Connecticut’s schools need to have an efficient and cost-effective means to include curriculum on child development and parenting within existing educational mandates, within courses currently taught to all students. This course is thus an “add-on” which can be used in full, as a nine week or longer exploration, or via selecting particular modules to fit in as little as a four week course. Each module contains a list of exercises that will weave our curriculum into language arts, science, social studies and even mathematics classes.