Feeding Babies

Roles: Babies

Feeding Babies

Week of February 10, 2014

This week we explored feeding the babies with lots of materials. The children were very excited to have many items to use to feed the babies, they enjoyed using the bottles, bibs, bowls, and spoons for feeding. All the children were acting out feeding the baby and were being very gentle while feeding. I asked the children ‘whose job is it to feed the baby?’ and it was fifty-fifty between ‘mom’ and ‘themselves’. I feel that the children have mainly been fed by their mothers and have seen mothers feeding babies. The children who said they were responsible for feeding their babies are speaking on their actions. At this age children are very egocentric and that is a great way to be when engaging into dramatic play. They were the ones doing the feeding so it was their job. I also noticed the children were holding the babies in a caring way. I feel the children are becoming more aware on how to care for a baby and enjoy talking about what exactly they are doing.

While engaging in the activity the children spoke a lot about mothers feeding the baby, on one child include daddy. Another topic that came up was what else can we do with the baby, and a few children said the babies need to play. Our next activity will be reading books and playing with the babies. I feel this activity will strengthen literacy skills and promote conversation about other people who take on roles as caregiver of babies.