The RealCare Baby simulator gives students the opportunity to experience what caring for a baby is really like. The students have to care for the baby’s every need.
When the baby cries it needs the student to do one of four things: change it, feed it, burp it, or rock it. Sometimes the baby will cry and not need any care. This means the baby is fussy and will cry for up to three minutes. The babies require care at all points of the day, even nighttime–just like a real baby. It may wake up eight times or it may not wake up at all.
The students in the Orem High School Child Development class have recently finished the baby simulator assignment. They were required to care for the baby from Friday after school until Sunday at 8 am.
To some students this is the best assignment ever, but to others it is definitely not.
Addisyn Johnson, an OHS senior and current member of the child development class said that the assignment was challenging, the baby was inconvenient, and it was rather annoying in the middle of the night. Though she did mention that she did feel some what more prepared to care for a child.
Sandy Kezerian, the child development teacher, said, “If students take this assignment seriously they can benefit greatly. They can learn about all the work it takes to care for a baby and that having a baby can change their lifestyle.”
Emma Simmons, a senior at Orem High, explained that when you are young, you don’t realize the responsibility it takes to care for a baby and that she learned those responsibilities from this assignment.
Caring for a baby can be challenging like Johnson said.
Mrs. Kezerian said, “This assignment allows students to see how well prepared they are to have children.”
The baby simulators show students what they need to do to be prepared for when they actually become a parent.
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