Lesson: Nine
Learning Outcome
By the end of this session, the student will be able to:
1. demonstrate an understanding of creating and maintaining healthy families
2. learn factors affecting and contributing to healthy families
3. Acquire a better understanding of stress and its effect on individuals’ personal, family and professional development.
Main Topics/Issues/ Points
1. Taking Care of the Basics
· The concept of Healthy families in Islam
2. Health and Families
3. Nutrition and Families
4. Safety and Families
5. Stress and Families
Discussions: Main Ideas
Taking Care of the Basics
· Recall
o Roles of the husbands and wife
o Roles of the parents
· Provide and accommodate the needs
o Physical Needs
o Intellectual Needs
o Social - Emotional Needs
o Moral - Spiritual Needs
Food and Families
Halal vs.Haram
Source of Rezeki
Source of Food
Food and its origin
Nutrients: Basic Concept
Nutritional Guidelines/
Food pyramid
Food for energy
Food for promoting growth
Preparing Food for Babies and Children
Food for babies
Breast milk vs formula
Breastfeeding: working mothers
Solid food
Food for Children
• Veggies and kids
• Junk Food
• Sweets and chocolates
• Creativity in serving food for chidlren
Food and Nutrition for Pregnant mothers
• Balanced diet & Nutritious food
• Nauseated & vomiting
• Craving
Food: Implication on growth
Health view
Islamic view x
Preparing Food
• Food Safety
• Cleanliness
• Sources
• Healthy and Nutritious
Trend in our society
• Pasar malam
• Frozen/canned food
• Food during festivities
Creativity on preparing food for families
Food that binds family together
Health and Families
Basic Cleanliness
Physical & environment
Clothing
Playing
Pregnant mothers
Regular check ups
Good Nutrition
Babies and Children
Immunization
Food intake
Illness among Children
Chicken pox & measles
Asthma
High Fever
Vomiting and Diarrhea
Safety and Families
• Creating quality and safe environment for family
1) Physical and psychological
2) Conducive, Safe and clean
3) Islamic
• Safety of the family members
1) Child-friendly for families with growing up babies and children
2) Educating children and adolescents about safety
Parents names, contact numbers and address
Talking to strangers
Rules of getting Help and assistance
3)
• Handling Crisis/Emergencies and management of injuries at home
1) Fire
2) First Aids
3) Drowning, burns, electric shock., chocking
4) CPR
• Ensuring Safety outside
1) At the play ground
2) School bus
3) School Compound
4) Talking with strangers
• Safe travelling
1) Transportation
2) Accommodation
• Child Abuse and Neglect’
• Domestic Violence
Understanding Stress in Families
Definitions of Stress?
• Eustress
• Distress
Symptoms of Stress
• Physiological
• Emotional
• Psychological
Source of Stress
• Internal vs. External
• Related stressors: Financial, work, children, education, etc.
Stress in Families
• Death in families
• Crises and Conflicts
• Divorces
• Sibling Rivalry
Effects of Stress on personal, professional & family development
• Work performance
• Personal and health
• Children and Families
Handling Stress:
i. Stress Reduction
Coping with Stress:
Counter-productive coping
Short term
ii. Sress Management
Coping with Stress:
Long Term
Creating Happy families
Based on Islamic teaching
Pleasure in performing the Roles and responsibilities
Love and affection
Respect and understanding
Family Routine
Family Rituals
Selected Quotations
Evidences from Qur’Én
Terminology
| · Eustress Good Stress · Distress Bad Stress · Stressor Source of Stress | · |
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Questions for Comprehension
1. What are the implications of health on children and families?
2. How can we ensure safety in the family?
3. “The food that we eat makes who we are” Discuss this phrase from Islamic view.
4. What are the signs that tell a person is experiencing stress in life?
5. In what situation, stress needs to be reduced instead of managed?
6. In what situation a Eustress can turn into distress?
7. Discuss how would you personally practice long term coping to stress
8. What are the potential sources of stress in families?
9. what are the strategies that can help us maintain healthy personal and professional being?
Selected Readings
· Abdullah Nasih Ulwan (1993). Pendidikan Anak-anak dalam Islam. Jilid 1 & 2 Singapore: Pustaka Nasional.
· Boss, P. (2002). Family stress management: A contextual approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
· Cooper, C. L. & Lewis, S. (1988). Balancing your career, family and life. London: Kogan Page.
· Galvin, K. M. & Bommel, B. M. (2000). Family communication: Cohesion and change. New York: Longman
· Gill, J. (1999). Stress: Survival guide.London: Harper Collin.
· Gray, J. (1993). Men are from Mars: Women are from Venus. London: Thorson
· M Habibullah Mukhtar (2003). Bringing up children in Islam. New Delhi:Adam Pub
· MacKay, M. (2000). The simple book with one purpose to help you relax. K Lumpur:SAM Pub.
· Marotz , L. R. , Cross, M. Z., & Rush, J. M. (2005). Health, safety and nutrition for the young Child. Thomson:Australia
· Stoltz-Loike (1992). Dual career couples: New perspectives in counseling. Alexandria: American Assoc. for Counseling & Dev.
· Walsh, F. (1998). Strengthening family resilience. New York, NY: Guilford.
