Baby face qualitative Evaluation

 
Baby FACE 
Wilder Research, January 2015 
 
Qualitative Evaluation 
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It helps you too to realize things you could use at home to teach your child. Who knew you could 
use that oatmeal container for sensory play. She tells you if you have this in your house, you can 
use it like this. 
I like that they come and facilitate something for my kids to be focused on. 
Parent educators (6) also noted the value of the handouts, like a toolkit for parents.
With the handouts, we have families that are first-time parents, and are teenage parents, with 
questions on feeding and on sleeping. The handouts are right there. If they need help with 
childcare, we pull out the handouts. 
[Parents] express that the handouts teach them things that they had never thought of. 
Parents in four focus groups agreed. The materials were not only helpful in providing tactics for 
handling challenging parenting situations, but also gave some parents comfort knowing they 
weren’t the only ones dealing with that challenge, that someone else had thought about it before. 
Some had binders full of all the handouts they referred to on an ongoing basis. 
I have these papers stacked from when we first started in a binder and I be going through that 
every other day to see if I’m doing it right and I am right. 
The papers they’re giving you, there’s information about growing up I still have that.
I was pregnant with my third child and I was looking back at that binder, at all those
paper. That helped a lot. 
I don’t think it matters if you are a new or old mom, but it doesn’t matter how many you have, 
whether it’s your first or last, there are certain things you didn’t have to deal with your other kid. 
[Parent educators] bring handouts, you feel like it’s not just me, you’re not going crazy, not just my 
kid throwing temper tantrums. The handout they give you, they ask you what you want, you read 
through them, you think you can do it, oh, I see, that does make sense. I think those handouts are 
the most helpful for me. There are parents going through same thing, I realize I’m not a crappy 
mom, I don’t’ have to say you take him I’m going for a walk. 
She’s been saving a binder for me of ideas for past two years; it’s a treasure.