Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters
Do you have a three, four, or five year old child that you want to be successful in school?
This FREE program will provide you with:
- Children’s books, crayons, scissors, shapes
- Weekly lesson packets to help you teach your child
- Parenting meetings and family activities
- For more information, please contact the HIPPY Coordinator at (334) 727-2700.
What is HIPPY?
by Joanne Shum, State Director
Parents love their children and want them to do well in school. Some parents seem to instinctively know how to achieve this and others don’t have a clue. But even those who do have a feel for how to reach their little ones are often uncertain as to what needs to be learned before kindergarten. School is harder than it used to be. There is more information to be covered and new things are being discovered daily. However, there are some basic things that all children should master before entering kindergarten.
Parts of Alabama have a program which assists parents with school readiness. This is Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY). HIPPY has been at work in Alabama since 1993 serving parents of children ages three, four, and five.
HIPPY works to ensure that children enter school knowing many things such as: letters, shapes, colors, and motor skills. Parent educators visit the home weekly and deliver a packet of lessons, books, shapes, and enrichment materials. The parent educator makes sure the parent knows how to teach the various lessons, but the parent does the actual teaching.
There are 30 weeks of lessons. If a child is enrolled as a three-year old and remains in the program, 300 lessons are covered. This allows a lot of cognitive learning to take place, but a lot of things that can’t be measured on a skills test also take place. For example, when a parent works on the HIPPY lessons for 10 to 15 minutes, five days a week with her child, the child knows intuitively how special he or she is. Also, the child knows that education is a strong value in the home. Bonding between the parent and the child is strengthened. Special memories are created and the parents learn to appreciate and understand the unique way their child learns. Self-esteem is fostered through a sense of competency and a lifelong love of learning is established.Visit the HIPPY Alabama website at http://hippyalabama.com/.
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