Family life education

[Bekka]

I am reviewing the breastfeeding content in our "family life education" in our school district for various reasons. It's fairly slim. I am interested in suggesting resources for them to supplement the curriculum with, but I'm not really sure what would be appropriate at what grade. Is there already some sort of breastfeeding curriculum that would be a useful supplement (30 min portion at 5th through 10th grade or something like that) to what is fairly basic and NOTHING MENTIONED IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AT ALL.

My biggest concern is in all caps--if we're trying to break down societal boundaries, we have to do it with the 11-14 crowd these days. Expectations to BF need to be gently ingrained here. Just exposure to these ideas a few times through adolescence may help.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a prepared BF curriculum to review?
TIA

[jocelynr]

I honestly have no idea. My mom tried to come to my home ec class in middle school to talk about breastfeeding when we were carrying around the sugar bags as babies. My teacher even wanted her to come, but she was never approved by the school to come. It was frustrating. Then I was teaching high school and a health class used my room during planning and the mentions of breastfeeding were so trivial that no one even noticed. The funny thing about that is that I would always come into the room after they had already started, carrying my pump

Anyway, I have no clue, but I agree something should be done!

[pumpkin]

What is the information paired with? Are they studying pregnancy and early child care? Is that even covered in multiple grades?

I only recall a brief segment on family life in 9th grade health and some coverage of reproduction in 7th grade science. Is that where you are trying to improve breastfeeding coverage?

[pinky]

NY state has a curriculum for K12:
http://www.health.state.ny.us/commun...eding/main.htm

hth!

[phathui5]

Originally Posted by pinky

NY state has a curriculum for K12:
http://www.health.state.ny.us/commun...eding/main.htm

hth!

This is lovely. I may use some of this for our homeschooling.