The goal of each home visiting program is the same - to help families grow happy, healthy children by supporting parents and caregivers. Parenting can be hard work, made harder when families are isolated, under stress or facing multiple challenges.  

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The following is a true story of a NH mother, Honey.

Honey found many interactions with her children to be overwhelming.   Honey's home visitor suggested she might benefit from the opportunity Stephanie provided and Honey hoped it would help her to get her children's behavior under control.    With Honey's permission, Stephanie showed us the videos. Honey had asked Stephanie to videotape the time her children returned from school, which felt especially difficult to her.  In the first video, Honey's house was very dark.  The children returned home and Honey immediately pointed her finger and admonished them to hang up their coats, not to leave their shoes around and interrogated her daughter about where she'd lost her mittens.  In the same video, Honey is shown playing a game with her daughter.  She was frustrated and distracted, often looking at her phone.  When Stephanie showed her the video, Honey was distressed.  She said, "I look like a drill sergeant!" and, "I saw the video and I saw my mother."  She said that she realized that it was not her children's behavior that needed to change, but hers. Read More