One of the outputs that have to be done in report period is certainly “Deciding age” handbook. We took considerable time for developing activities including finalizing handbook materials, taking photos, editing and designing.

Handbook introduction

This handbook is a detailed guideline that designed for parents who have children aged between 0-6. There has been never developed such a complex handbook for Mongolian parents in the past. This handbook has 6 chapters as follows:

v Start walking (0-18 months)

v Start talking (19-36 months)

v Start thinking (37-60 months)

v “Human shaping” (61-72 moths)

v Special child (twin and disabled child etc)

v Parents relations and care and development manner

Outline of the handbook contents:

v Modern information on characteristics and development of children aged between 0-6

v Recommendations on how to nurturing pre-school aged children with healthy, happy and nice

v Solutions to mitigate worries and problems facing with parents daily when they interact with their children

v Valuable methods for parents on how to interact with children properly

v Over 170 photos and charts that showed real life of pre-school aged children both in local and central area.

Outline of each small topics in the handbook:

v Example of problems or challenges facing with parents

v Scientifically-based explanation that described why such problems and challenges are faced with parents as coordinating with developmental characteristics of the children with such ages.

v Recommendation on how to interact with children and solve problems and challenges

Opening ceremony and its dissemination

Opening ceremony was held on October 12, 2011 at Ulaanbaatar Hotel. Many visitors including participants of workshop, international, national colleagues and some parents came to the opening ceremony.

Thanks to the publication were financed by the International Development Research Centre; it has given possibilities to use new handbook freely for stakeholders such as teachers, parents who involved in project and relevant people. We had possibilities to disseminate totally 300 handbooks for freely. So far, 230 handbooks were disseminated freely to the relevant people.

Guests by opening ceremony of the handbook

Handbooks to be given to the selected kindergarten and school teachers and parents in the aimag and capital city have been handed to the relevant participants in Ulaanbaatar workshop. (1 handbook for each kindergarten teacher); (1 handbook for each parents); and (5 handbooks for each school library). Representative participants have informed back about people who received handbook when they come back to their respective aimags.

We have a plan to give remaining handbooks to the organization and people who are working actively with us as well as we will post all materials of the handbook on website in OER way.

Importance of the handbook

To see baseline research of the project, it can be clearly seen that recommendation and information on how to interact with children and their age characteristics were one of the most urgent issues for parents and teachers who work and/or live with pre-school aged children. Thus, we hope that parents and teachers’ needs will considerably provided by presenting this handbook to everyone who wants to know above-mentioned issues as “OER” type in online or hardcopy way. As a result of that initiative, training-materials that to be developed with participation of parents and teachers who involved in project will be posted on our website.

To see from another angle, published handbooks also have great benefit for parents who are not able to use Internet. In addition, all users to be visited to our website will have benefit to read this handbook by online as we post it on website as OER.

Project coordinator N.Norjkhorloo

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