What Parents Say

"Your lessons gave me my first tools to help raise a child in a manner that was respectful and I am grateful. Thank you for being such a kind sharing warm human being. Your influence had a very positive ripple effect in the lives of our family. "

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"Peter is very much the teenager's advocate. We have very normal kids making their parents a little bit crazy. But the parents have this time together to look forward to so they can discuss things with the group and with Peter."

About Dr. Haiman

For over four decades, parents have met with Dr. Haiman to resolve child and adolescent rearing problems. His work in this area has received national recognition and been featured in local newspaper articles.

In 2000, he was selected one of thirty-five professionals from across the country to participate in President Clinton’s Child Development Delegation to Cuba. This delegation was authorized in 1999 by President Clinton “to reach out of the Cuban people through humanitarian efforts...”

From 1972 to 1974 Dr. Haiman was tenured Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Early Childhood Development and Education at the University of South Carolina. He has taught at colleges and universities in Ohio and in the San Francisco bay area. From 2001 to 2004, he taught graduate students at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California.

He was elected President of the San Francisco and South Carolina chapters of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

From 1969 to 2003 Dr. Haiman was a consultant to the U.S. Office of Child Development, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Head Start Bureau.

From 1965 to 1968, he created and directed a privately funded Parent and Child Center. This program became the model for the federally funded, Head Start Parent and Child Centers and, later, Head Start Early Learning Centers.

When Program Director of Cleveland Ohio’s Head Start, Parent and Child Center from 1968-1971, he created program policies and strategies that effectively involved and empowered low income parents. These innovative efforts were brought to the attention of the national Head Start Office.

In May 1969, the national Head Start Office invited Dr. Haiman to Washington, D.C. to write the Parent Involvement Program Performance Standards for the national Head Start program.  He has trained Head Start program administrators, staff and parents throughout the United States.

In 1976, he was appointed Director of Training for federally funded early childhood and parent education programs in Federal Region IX (Arizona, Nevada, California, Hawaii and the Trust Territories).

The California State Department of Education has appointed him to serve on administrative and curriculum task forces.  He was a member of the California Senate’s Select Committee on Children and Youth.

In 1993, he advised U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy’s Advisory Committee on Head Start Quality and Expansion.  This committee revised national Head Start Program Standards.

In 1965, he directed research for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that revealed racial segregation and its effects on public school students in Cleveland, Ohio.  These findings were presented to the U.S. Supreme Court and led to school desegregation rulings.

Since 1984, he has provided individual psychotherapy to adults and adolescents.

Articles by him have been published in The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, Young Children, Contemporary Pediatrics, the Journal of Psychohistory, Mothering Magazine, New Beginnings, Working Mother and other national and foreign publications.  They can also be read on several Web sites.