As you move through your education and your life, you grow and mature in numerous ways. One of the most important and complex areas of growth is personal growth! Which is exactly what you will be exploring in this activity! For this activity, you will be creating an outline for a personal growth project. What is a personal growth project? I’m glad you asked!

A personal growth project is a student-designed and student-focused project that will help you learn how to take ownership over your learning and become life-long learners in the process. What that means is that you will have a lot of input when it comes to this activity/project!

First:
You will start by brainstorming a list of five things that you would like to learn more about in relation to parenting, children, or families.

Second:
You will develop a proposal for your project that will explain and summarize. Your proposal will be a minimum of two pages in length (or the equivalent in slides), and include the following sections:

Introduction
What is your project plan? What will you learn? Why did you choose this?
Project overview
Specific steps you will take to execute your project
What the final accomplishment will be
Group Factor
How could you adapt this project to include other students? What would their roles/responsibilities be?
How could more people help bring this project to life? How would more people change this project? How would you deal with issues that arose among the group?
Reflection
How would you reflect on your learning (diary, journal, photo diary)?
How would this project impact your leadership abilities?
Specifics:
You can create and write this project proposal in a word processing program or use a slide show presentation, as long as the required length and content requirements are met.
List any resources that you used to research this project at the end.
Project Possibilities:
These are just some suggestions to get your mind thinking about some possible parenting-related personal growth projects. You are welcome to take on one of these or come up with your own.

Obtaining certification in an area of interest (First Aid, CPR) and situations when this might be useful
Weekly Meal Planning to meet a child’s nutritional needs while also sticking to a budget
Baby-proofing a home and/or how to do so throughout the different developmental stages
Teaching a child to read, learn a new language, or another specific skill