Young Living Classes at Bonneville

Kirra Houpt
Staff Writer
Young Living classes are popular among students because they offer engaging activities and hands-on labs, making learning both fun and interactive. A few of the more well-known classes are foundational foods and Parenting and Child Development, which are taught by both Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Child. Both teachers attended the same college together and received the same degree: Family and Consumer Sciences. Mrs. Hall has been teaching at Bonneville for 19 years. Mrs. Child has dedicated her 32-year teaching career to Bonneville. Shortly after graduating, she was offered a job there and has been teaching ever since. Both Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Child teach the Family and Consumer Sciences classes, which revolve around applicable life skills. One of the most engaging projects for the young living classes is the Baby Think It Over unit; the project involves an electronic baby designed to simulate the actual experience of taking care of a real child.The Baby Think It Over project assigns various caregiving tasks to the participant, requiring them to care for the simulated baby over a set period, typically one full school day and two nights or an entire weekend. To pass the project, students are required to complete a certain amount for the baby,such as feeding, burping, rocking, and changing, as well as keeping the head and body stable, avoiding any sudden or shaking movements. Parenting and Child Development teaches a variety of students how to properly care for a baby, the stages of prenatal development, and much more to give an understanding of caring and being a responsible parent. Foundational foods is an enlightening class students can take that teaches about the safety and sanitation of being in the kitchen, alongside participating in a variety of labs to cook or bake meals with an assigned group. At the end of the trimester, students are required to take the Food Safety Exam which consists of a diverse amount of questions from what students learn in the classroom. A 75% or higher is required to pass and with doing so you earn a safety in food sciences certificate. 
Although some of the classes can be a real struggle for students to complete, Mrs. Child talked about how they were not necessarily difficult to teach though, gathering material could take awhile. All of these courses provide a large range of ideas for future career paths. 

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