Partner In Parenting Education (PIPE) Curriculum

Partner In Parenting Education (PIPE) Curriculum

Practical, Relationship-Based curriculum for Building Healthier Parent-Child Relationships.
Available in English and Spanish

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PIPE Curriculum Overview

The Partners In Parenting Education PIPE Curriculum is a relationship-based curriculum which follows a 4-step instructional model that supports parents in becoming more emotionally responsive.

Grounded in positive parenting and research-based practices, PIPE offers a framework for building secure attachments, supporting social-emotional growth, and promotes school readiness.

How PIPE Enhances Parenting Education

The curriculum is specifically designed for parenting educators who support families with young children.

With PIPE, parenting educators:

  • Partner with parents to expand their emotional availability skills.
  • Position the child as the teacher, validating and empowering the parent
  • Use fast, focused, and fun strategies to share complex parenting concepts
  • Utilize strength-based practices

  • Use good practice to elicit positive parenting behavior changes

Why Choose Pipe?

  • Supports Infant Mental Health – Provides strategies to enhance early emotional development and prevent relational challenges.
  • Encourages Positive Parenting Practices – Helps caregivers develop effective strategies for guiding children’s behavior.
  • Backed by Professional Development Standards – Designed to align with best practices in training professionals who work with families.

3 Units

The PIPE curriculum focuses on key areas essential for parenting educators, divided into 3 units:

Listen, Listen, Listen

Helping parents learn the language of infancy by listening and responding appropriately to their child’s emotional cues fosters trust and emotional security. Emotional responsiveness makes parenting easier and children happier.

Love is Layers of Sharing

Exploring how sharing positive emotions helps parents build a strong, loving relationship by creating layers of understanding, trust, and empathy with their baby. This process strengthens the parent-child bond.

Playing is Learning

Emphasizes the importance of play, helping parents support learning through joyful experiences, reinforcing the connection between emotional stability and learning.

Purchase the Full Curriculum

Educators Guide, Activity Cards and Parent Handouts & CD ROM

Available in English and Spanish

The PIPE Curriculum includes: Educator’s Guide, Parent Handouts and Activity Cards

PIPE offers a comprehensive set of materials designed to enhance learning and implementation.
These resources provide structured, hands-on tools to support professionals in guiding families effectively:

Educator’s Guide

The PIPE Educator’s Guide Includes…

  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Listen, Listen, Listen Unit
  • Love is Layers of Sharing Unit
  • Playing is Learning Unit

Each PIPE Unit Includes…

  • Conceptual Overview
  • Introducing the Unit
  • A List of Unit Topics
  • Conceptual Plan
  • Unit Topics

Parent Handouts

The Parent Handouts are designed to reinforce learning, helping caregivers apply PIPE concepts in their daily interactions with their children.

Each included notebook and CD contain information pages and printable worksheets for each topic to enhance a parent’s learning along with handouts appropriate for a variety of reading abilities and learning styles.

Activity Cards

The Parent Handout Binder and CD contain printable information pages and worksheets that enhance a parent’s learning. They meet the needs of a variety of literacy levels and learning preferences.

The activities are easy to explain, and they prompt feelings of success when completed.

The same activity card may be used with a number of different parenting concepts.

Each box includes a section of Games, Rhymes and Songs and Spanish Rhymes and Songs.

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The PIPE Instructional Model – 4 Step Process

Presentation
of Concepts

Parents are provided with parenting information using a variety of learning experiences and instructional strategies.

Demonstration
of Concepts

The parenting educator models the concept shared in step 1. The demonstration is the bridge between learning and real-life.

Supervised Parent-Child
Interaction

Time set aside for the parent to practice integrating new skills with the support of the parenting educator.

Evaluation, reflection
and feedback

Time for the parent to reflect on their experience, share feedback and recognize accomplishments.

PIPE Curriculum Content

The PIPE Curriculum has 3 units and 28 topics

The Listen, Listen, Listen Unit focuses on emotional communication, regulation skills, and respecting the baby.

Babies are able to help direct their care. Babies signal what they need through emotional expression. Parents who listen to their baby’s feelings will respond more appropriately to their baby’s state of awareness.

A baby’s first developmental stage is to develop a biological pattern or rhythm. Establishing a daily routine where parent and baby have adapted to one another will make parenting easier.

Babies “talk to us” using facial expressions, body language, and voice sounds. Learning to listen to a baby’s cues is a key parenting skill.

Babies give cues to signal when they are tuned in and when they need to tune out. The Dance of Love is the timely response to the engagement and disengagement cues that impact a baby’s development.

Playing with a baby or toddler helps the child learn. Children will engage in play for a longer time when parents teach by scaffolding.

Babies learn language by listening and imitating. Parents are the models and mentors for babies as they learn language.

Parents and children can share positive emotions during music and rhythm activities. Sharing music and rhythm games strengthens brain pathways and relationships.

Reading is a fun activity that can last a lifetime. Interest in books and pictures begins in the first 6 months. Reading can be used as a tool to regulate a baby or toddler.

Love is Layers of Sharing Unit focuses on attachment and relationship building.

Love is a relationship that deepens through mutual sharing. A baby’s emotional and social development is determined through relationships. The first relationship sets the pattern for all future relationships. Learning to use positive parenting techniques early can enhance the development of love and make parenting fun.

Understanding and accepting differences in temperament is important to building a love relationship.

Trust is the foundation for love. Knowing how to read baby’s signals and respond appropriately is essential to developing trust. The trust cycle is the pattern by which babies learn who consistently fulfills their needs.

Babies and toddlers learn to relate to others by sharing emotional experiences with their parents. A parent’s expression and regulation of emotions becomes a pattern for baby to model.

Touch is one way love is communicated to babies. Touch stimulates growth and development and can be used to help regulate babies. Touch helps babies learn about their environment.

Consistently available parents provide feelings of safety, which lead to self-confident children.

Honoring another person’s need to be separate and independent is showing respect. Autonomy contributes to one’s feelings of esteem, pride, and accomplishment. Fostering a baby’s need for independence results in a happier, more confident child.

Guidance and modeling are a basic foundation of the parent-child relationship. Rules help children understand how to operate in their world and what behaviors are acceptable to others.

The process of building a love relationship is not always smooth. It is normal for parents to have ambivalent feelings about their children and themselves. Tolerance is needed during certain developmental stages and problem periods for parent and child.

Relationships consume energy that must be replenished. The demands of caring for an infant or toddler and fulfilling other life expectations can be draining and stressful. Parents who take care of their own needs are better able to meet the needs of their children. Learning to emotionally refuel and nurture oneself is a learned skill.

Playing is Learning Unit focuses on play as a way children learn and the importance of emotional stability for learning.

Play is a natural pathway for learning. Play makes learning fun.

Through play, parents see change in their babies’ development, temperament, and emotional needs. Learning about developmental milestones helps parental expectations.

Parents are the baby’s first teacher. They are the most consistent and the most powerful teachers.

Babies and toddlers learn most through their relationships with parents. They learn social skills and cultural norms using parents as a model and guide.

Parents will learn the power of shared positive emotions (SPEs) in managing behavior. They will learn to change “dont’s” into “do’s” and to use the “We” word in teaching and managing their toddlers.

Sharing strong negative emotions inhibits learning.

All learning happens through sensory experience. Babies are learning about themselves and others through their senses.

The first form of play is imitation. As early as three months, babies copy parents’ mouth and sound games. Imitation leads to learning. Babies imitate parents’ emotions also. Turn taking teaches rules and helps socialize babies. Parents under- stand the dangers of imitation and discuss TV and other models in their baby’s life. Imitation and turn taking help babies learn language. Pretend is a form of imitation. Parents will learn how pretend helps babies with emotional development.

Play encourages communication. Parents will learn skills and barriers for good communication. They learn the value of play to teach language and negotiation.

Play is a way to learn to problem solve. Parents will learn to make problems fun and divide them into small steps, when to let their baby work on a problem and when to become a resource person for their baby.

Register for an E-Training…

Our Comprehensive Online Training…

The PIPE Comprehensive E-Training is designed for parenting educators who want to expand their knowledge and increase their parenting education skills.

Our training is interactive, experiential and supports parent educators in using the PIPE curriculum with parents.

Parenting Educators

This training empowers parenting educators to confidently apply proven strategies to promote healthy family dynamics and child well-being.

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This training supports nurses in positively transforming the lives of mothers and children to create a healthier future for families.