Summer is a great opportunity for learning! You can get outside and explore the world around you, read great books that will take you to different places, and have many conversations with your children about the things they see. Keeping children’s brains and bodies engaged during the summer…
Teaching your children at an early age how to be kind towards others is an important part of raising them to be ready for school and have strong social-emotional skills. The most important things parents can do is to be kind to others so your children see kindness…
The Parent-Child Home Program (PCHP) strives to support, enhance, and highlight the value of the parent-child relationship every single day in all the work we do. Decades of scientific research has determined that it is in the best interest of children to keep parents and children together and…
Please read below for a guest blog written by PCHP Pennsylvania State Director Malkia Singleton Ofori-Agyekum for CHOP PolicyLab. When I was asked to write a guest blog in honor of Father’s Day for the CHOP PolicyLab, my first thought was that a father’s voice on this topic is…
Ameesha Jackson is a PCHP mother in Philadelphia. She recently made these remarks at a Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse fundraiser. Hello, my name is Ameesha and I am the mother of Amari who is currently enrolled in this Program. When I was first asked to speak…
Start the warm weather seasons off right by moving your feet and being active! Collect some of your friends and their children and host an Olympics. You can start by making medals together and then can identify some fun for all activities to get everyone moving! We share…
I started interning at PCHP in January of 2018 and I have loved every second of it! This year, I was able to participate in the PCHP Annual Conference and really enjoyed my time. Being new to the PCHP family allowed me to have a different perspective than…
This blog post was written by Honey Schnapp, PCHP Coordinator in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We are so excited for the opportunity to introduce Ellen Mayer’s new book, Banana for Two, to our families. It made its debut as part of our curriculum this year at our Spring…
Earth Day, April 22nd, celebrates our Earth and how important it is to us. Earth Day originated in the 1970s when environmental issues were first coming to the forefront as issues that needed to be addressed. This day provides an opportunity to think about what we can do…
Un Dia de Nieve When Winter Storm Quinn hit New York City at the beginning of March, it was properly foreshadowed. Only a few days earlier I was sitting in a PCHP staff meeting, discussing an Ezra Jack Keats book entitled “Snowy Day” or “Dia de…
It is never too early to start reading poetry with your children. Poetry is actually one of the best types of texts for parents and young children to enjoy together. Nursery rhymes and rhyming books such as Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, and Shel Silverstein are wonderful examples of…
In order to help your children grow-up to be responsible adults, it is important to begin talking with them about what responsibility means and why it is important from an early age. Stories and games are some of the best ways to build understanding about why responsibility is…
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