Read Davis & Thompson (2014) and Diener (2021), complete this handout as you read
Davis & Thompson (2014)Link to Diener 2021 reading
Watch the video What Babies Learn Before They are Born, complete this handout while watching the video.
Watch the video Prenatal to Birth (the video is available from BMCC’s Library video data base Films on Demand, follow the steps on this handout or in this video to locate the video; I suggest completing this handout as you watch the video)
Answer the questions below including specific references to the videos and readings in this activity:
- Think about specific parents and grandparents you know.
- How do the challenges they face as parents differ based on the age of their children?
- Do your observations fit with Galinsky’s stages of parenting? How?
- What contextual factors and sociocultural contexts impacted their parenting behaviors? How?
- Based on fetal programming/ fetal origins theory, what impact could the fetal exposure to the COVID pandemic (not the virus) have on the later health and development of babies, children, teens, and adults?
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