My Best Self Brownie Skill Building Badge

My Best Self Brownie Badge is part of the Brownie Quest Skill Building Badge set. Each step has three suggestions to choose from. These are the ones we chose to complete.

Step 1. Get to Know Your Body:
Color in your eyes, hair, and favorite clothes. She also pointed out how her features are like or different people in her family. (My hair color, Daddy's eyes...)

Step 2. Eat & Play in a Healthy Way: 

Try three different kinds of exercise. She chose jumping on the trampoline, riding her bike, and jumping rope.

Step 3. Find Out How Your Body Works:
Learn about a healthy temperature. We took my Little Brownie's temperature to make sure it was 98.6', then we talked about 2 things that might make her temperature higher or lower.


Step 4. Know What to Do If Something Bugs You:
Create a "happy box" with five things that make you smile. I asked her the 5 things she might like to have if she were away from home and got homesick. She chose her favorite blanket, a stuffed toy, a book, her tablet (of course), and a candy bar. I mentioned to her that I read that sometimes emergency workers carried stuffed animals in their vehicles to make little ones feel better.


Step 5. Meet a Health Helper:
Visit a doctor, dentist, or optometrist. This badge was done at the perfect time! Her vision checkup was this week. The optometrist answered all of her questions and helped things go smoother with a running dialog during the whole checkup.