Baby face qualitative Evaluation

Parent-child interactions 
By participating in home visits and engaging with the curriculum, parent educators are observing 
that parents, and in some cases whole families, are interacting more with their children (noted by 
nine parent educators and two supervisors).
I see an improvement in how the mother interacts with the child. 
I think it is making families realize the importance of interaction with your child. There is a bigger 
difference from their older children to the younger child in how they are raising them. The parents 
can see a brighter future for their children, the more they can be involved and interact with their 
child. 
I think it is knowing that the parent has taken the role that they are the child’s first teacher. 

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Baby FACE 
Wilder Research, January 2015 
 
Qualitative Evaluation 
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At seven sites, parents stated that the program had a positive impact on their interactions with 
their child. Parents referenced how much they played with the child, how they changed the style 
of their conversations, and started reading to them.
I’ve learned a lot about how you can just play with your kids- even as small as they are you can 
interact with them.
Before we didn’t know what was safe, unsafe, how to play with him, now we have stuff and my 
parents have knowledge too and my parents can interact with him (child).
Right off [parent educator] said you need to talk to her like a normal person, and she really helped 
my daughter talk.
When I read to him, I get into the book and express (through sound effects and voices) what story 
they’re talking about and he’ll be laughing and say read it again. That’s what got us together, those 
books.