Workshop 1 – Children’s wellbeing and quality of life

Use this presentation or watch the video

Video retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI5IFIyeVpw&t=189

Answer the following questions based on the concept of wellbeing:

1. Which 5 things do you think are necessary for achieving wellbeing? Put these things in order starting from which is most important to you.

2. Explain why these 5 entries are important to you considering your prioritization.

3. How would these entries change if you were 20 years younger or older?

4. Would they change if you were living in Alaska or Nigeria and how?

5. What factors might impact your entries?

UNICEF, as one of the most important organizations regarding children of the world, proposed six dimensions of wellbeing: material wellbeing, health and safety, educational wellbeing, family and peer relationships, behavior and risks and subjective wellbeing.

Please define what is contained in each one of them and suggest ways to measure them. Both qualitative and quantitative methods can be used. Examples of measuring subjective wellbeing can be asking people how they feel day-to-day or how they function or whether they feel their needs are being met. At the end, please refer to any challenges you faced while completing this activity.

Check your answers to the previous question, using this document. 

Write your comments on the answers you gave compared to the right answers.

Answer the following questions regarding children’s wellbeing:

1. What are the qualities for children to have a good life?

2. What are the goals for children regarding health, education, and socialization?

3. When trying to answer this question: “What is good for children?”, what is the mistake that people make?

4. After answering the above questions, describe a story of a child you may know or make your own story about a child based on the answers you gave.

These are some difficulties that children may face in any place of the world. Read the following points and write below which of these difficulties would affect a child’s wellbeing and how.

1. Gender discrimination

2. Attacks in schools

3. Disabilities

4. Forced to flee their home

5. Child marriage

6. Child labour

7. Toxic stress

8. Danger on their way to school

9. Natural disasters

10. Gang violence

11. Talking a different language

12. No access to school

Time for Reflection

What is it that you experienced or learnt from this unit?

Which keywords, quotes or exercises do you remember?