PICCOLO™ - Brookes Publishing Co.
Tool name
Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes
Use to evaluate
Quality of parent–child interactions
Age range
10–47 months
Completed by
Home visitors, parent educators, social workers, child development specialists, parenting class leaders, infant mental health clinicians
Time commitment
10-minute observation
Encourage positive parenting interactions
The Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes (PICCOLO™) is a checklist of 29 observable developmentally supportive parenting behaviors in four domains (affection, responsiveness, encouragement, and teaching). It is a positive, practical, versatile, culturally sensitive, valid, and reliable tool for practitioners that shows what parents can do to support their children’s development.
PICCOLO helps practitioners observe a wide range of parenting behaviors that help children develop over time—an approach known as developmental parenting. Parenting strengths—what the parent already believes is important to do and is comfortable doing with his or her child—are a valuable resource for increasing the developmental support available to young children.
Benefits
- assess positive parenting behaviors that predict good child outcomes
- guide individualized positive parenting interventions with families
- track positive parenting outcomes of a parenting support program
Developers
What You'll Need
A Spanish translation is included in the back of the User’s Guide.
See examples of how parents may display affection, responsiveness, encouragement, and teaching with their young child and how to score them in these sample items from PICCOLO.
This one-sheet is a list of 29 things parents do with their young children, ages 10-47 months, that predict certain outcomes when children are old enough to start kindergarten
How PICCOLO™ Can Help You Work More Effectively with Parents of Young Children
Hear from tool co-developer Lori Roggman in this recording of a 45-minute webinar to discover how the PICCOLO can help you provide positive feedback to parents, develop interventions to help parents build skills, and track the positive outcomes of your parent support program.
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Programs can use PICCOLO in conjunction with the HOVRS, a direct observation tool to assess the quality of home visits. HOVRS can be found in the appendix of Developmental Parenting, a guide for early childhood practitioners by the developers of PICCOLO.
How can you help parents do more of what they’re already doing right to support their child’s development?