This competency-based, individualized learning package, consisting of 10 learning guides, deals with child development. Addressed in the individual learning guides are the following topics: the safety needs of infants and children; the qualities, attitudes, and traits that increase parenthood readiness; the special needs created by teenage pregnancy; fetal development and factors affecting it; prenatal care; the changes occurring in a woman's body during pregnancy; the birth process; characteristics of newborns; the role of nutrition in infant and child development; problem situations arising between children and their parents; and the needs of and health practices for infants and young children. Each learning guide contains some or all of the following: a task title, a statement of purpose, an estimated time for completion of the guide, performance objectives, a learning contract, learning steps, resources, one or more information sheets, one or more activity sheets, a performance checklist, and a criterion-referenced exam. (MN)