Messages From Home: The Parent-Child Home Program For Overcoming Educational Disadvantage (Critical Perspectives on the P)

The Parent-Child Home Program is a low-cost pre-preschool intervention to help parents prepare their toddlers for school. Over four decades of experimental research have supported the program's hypothesis that children's best preparation for school is their early participation in cheerful, casual exchanges of concept-building play and conversation with their parents at home. The Parent-Child Home Program is a social program aimed at ameliorating many of the challenges of a low-income environment. In this updated new edition, Phyllis Levenstein's daughter, Susan, continues her mother's labor of love, confirming the fact that with a solid theoretical base, elbow grease, and perseverance it is possible to carry a good idea a good long way. The Parent-Child Home Program, a pre-preschool home visiting program, has grown greatly since the first edition of Messages from Home was published in 1988. This expanded and updated edition shows the continued success of this program-spearheaded by the late Phyllis Levenstein-which prepares at-risk children for school success, overcoming educational disadvantage. Since The Parent-Child Home Program was founded in the 1960s, it has enriched the cognitive, social, and emotional school readiness of tens of thousands of children. The Program's methods, its theoretical underpinnings, and its impressive results are presented in detail. The success stories of both parents and children make inspiring reading. The combination of lively writing and data-driven scientific rigor give it both broad appeal and academic relevance.

Combining lively writing and scientific rigor, this expanded and updated edition of Messages from Home describes the methods and continued success of The Parent-Child Home Program. Spearheaded by the late Phyllis Levenstein, this pre-preschool home visiting program prepares at-risk children to succeed in school, overcoming educational disadvantage.

An up-to-date overview of one of the longest-running home visiting programs, emphasizing school readiness and early literacy in toddlers