The following list is the standards and benchmarks for Child Development/Parenting.

Standard 2:  Building Relationships

• Benchmark A:  Appraise methods that build and maintain helathy interpersonal relationships.
• Benchmark B:  Examine the impact of coping and personal resilience skills.
• Benchmark C:  Determine personal assests that demonstrate healthy, caring and responsible citizenship.

Standard 7:  Manage a Life Plan

• Benchmark B:  Explore time management stratedgies related to educational, work and family goals.
• Benchmark H:  Recognize friend, family and community systems that sustain productive, meaningful lifestyles.

Standard 9:  Prepare to Nurture and Care for Children

• Benchmark A:  Associate attributes and skills needed to assume the parenting role with healthy adult characteristics.
• Benchmark B:  Evaluate skills for building healthy families where children thrive.
• Identify how parents and families prepare for prenatal, birth, and infant care.
• Relate theory and resear of child growth and development.
• Compare childcare venues related to child nurturing and care.