Reflective Journal Healthcare Concept 2022

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Routing care
A well-scheduled routine for a child is essential to inculcate discipline in their lives. A
well- scheduled day makes a child happy and healthy in a long run. It helps them in developing
the importance of time and doing things in a systematic manner. In a school, well- framed day of
a schoolchild from his time of breakfast to the time he leaves is perquisite for their healthy
growth. These initial years of a child are formative years and the mind of a child is like a sponge
in these years as the child, easily absorbs whatever is poured in.
As mind of a child is like a sponge, its body is also like a sponge. It becomes important to
nourish the child’s body with proper nutrients to help them grow physically robust and improve
their motor- functioning. As a childcare, I feel that children need to fed with healthy food to give
them a happy and healthy life ahead. A healthy body of a child can be achieved with nutrients-
rich food and proper hygiene. The children of our class N1 are trained to wash their hands
thoroughly before seating at their preassigned seats to have a salubrious breakfast. After the
breakfast gets over, they wash their hands and resort to their classrooms. The food given to them
are according to the guidelines of EDCA to ensure the proper intake of vitamins. It is important
to serve schoolchildren with the food rich in Protein, which include eggs, beans, peas, soy
products and unsalted nuts. The high protein in their diet enables the formation of muscles and
bones in children (Phillips, Heaney, Nicklas, Slavin, & Weaver, 2015). It is important to keep in
mind that the preparation of the food should be done with proper care and hygiene. Any kind of
unhygienic factor could weaken their body immunity. The cook should make sure that the
utensils are properly washed with no trace of liquid soap on it. Their every day’s diet should
contain fruits, vegetables, grains, and dairy products. The fruits can be of all varieties but it is
important to make sure that there is no added sugar to it. The added sugar is detrimental to the
child’s body as high sugar intake could cause hyper-activity in child. The highly nutritive food
can be sometimes tasteless to a child so the children could be served with healthy snacks, which
may include vegetables dips, Turkish sandwich, cheese and crackers and milk and cereal.
As a health care provider, I believe that it is important for schoolchildren to be taught
hygienic habits like of washing hands thoroughly before the meal, wearing napkins while eating,
and establishing the routine for dental hygiene (Health Direct, 2019). Dental hygiene is a very

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important subject for schoolchildren (Dental Care, 2019). They should be taught the routine of
brushing teeth three times a day. They should be taught the habit of cleaning their nails by
cutting them weekly. A session should be conducted in teaching them the values of cleanliness
and conveying them creatively that germs are as monsters, which should be killed at all, cost.
Multiple intelligence-based approach of teaching kids
Two children in the age group of four to six were seating in the park with their teachers.
One of the children could pronounce rabbit very well just by seeing it written in the book while
for the other kid, it was difficult. Then suddenly, the rabbit passed by that make the child to
pronounce “rabbit”. The above story shows the importance of different ways through which a
child learns a subject.
The multiple intelligence-based approaches are focused on teaching children according
to their strong intelligence area (Cherry, 2019). Some children are good at learning through
pictures while some learn easily through words. The approach provides the creative way of
teaching a child according to their strong intelligence ability. The creative way of teaching
promotes easier learning to children. They are more in the position of accepting the new words
and concepts from the usage of their strong intelligence area. The Singapore has its first
Childcare established with the aim of providing Integrated Holistic Curriculum through multiple
intelligences-based approaches
There are eight types of multiple-intelligence approaches. It includes Visual-Spatial,
linguistic-verbal, logical-mathematical, Bodily-Kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal,
and naturalistic intelligence (Gardner, 2018). The visual-spatial intelligence is concerned with
those individuals who are good at learnings through charts, diagrams, maps, and videos. In term
2, the teacher used paintings of security system to make the children understand the concept of
emergency. The second is linguistic -verbal intelligence where the individuals are good at
learning through reading, writing, and debating. The third approach is learning through
recognizing patterns, reasoning, and logical analysis of the problems the approach is the logical -
mathematical approach (Baş & Beyhab, 2017). The teacher in the childcare used the approach in
teaching them about the weathers with the help of Lego blocks.