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The aim of this research project is to develop a secondary school Home Economics study that increases self awareness through the study of family and child care; with all students experiencing the involvement with an infant and visualizing themselves as parents. This project considers the effectiveness of the Flour Baby Project (FBP) carried out by the Overland Trial Middle School, Kansas, USA and follows the steps on additional tests carried out by Japanese undergraduate and post graduate students since 2003. This research reported on the sixth stage and hands on practice of the FBP in the development of the middle school compulsory subject “Technology and Home economics (Home Economics field)”. As a result, when many students experienced the care of a FBP, that was the same weight as the student’s own birth weight, they became aware of the difficulties involved in raising a child, realized their true feelings for their parents, as well as increased their own self-awareness. Finally, many opinions and impressions concerning the meaning and the continuance of FBP were received from student’s parents.
