Lec#6: The Filipino Child Flashcards
What are the factors that affect physical development?
- access to high-quality early childcare + parental intervention
- access to play spaces and physical leisure
What act aims to provide nutrition programs for mothers and children?
RA 11148 (Health and Nutrition of Mother and Child Act of 2018)
What contributed to the shift of children becoming more sedentary?
technology
What factors affect cognitive development?
- Low school participation (3-4 yrs old)
- Economic hardship
- Lack of funding and resources for Education sector
- Learning poverty
- Access to ICT
- Access to play opportunities
What do you mean by “learning poverty”?
Being unable to read and
understand simple text by age 10
How many Filipino children (%) are considered “learning deprived”?
90% (9 in 10)
What are potential harmful effects of extensive screen time?
- Heightened attention deficit symptoms
- Impaired emotional and social intelligence
- Technology addiction
- Social isolation
- Impaired brain development
- Disrupted sleep
- Language development (very important during the 1st 5 years of life)
Toys that facilitate creativity and __________.
problem solving
What factors affect the socio-emotional development of a child?
- cultural differences
- access to ICT
- gender and sexuality
- vulnerability factors
What factors make you more susceptible to being marginalized (vulnerable)?
- Poverty and malnutrition
- identity crisis
- bullying incidents
- exploitation
- being a child
- being a PWD/a child of a PWD parent
What is the main occupation of children?
play and leisure
Shape sorters and fun boards promote what?
cognitive skills
What are examples of gender neutral activities?
patintero, taguan, langit lupa, etc.
Feminine gender specific play promotes what?
IADLs and ADLs
Child maltreatment correlates to what?
lower social functioning (early to middle childhood)