Parent Educator

                       
Barb Dopp B.A., M.Ed.
Phone: 952.431.8340
Voicemail: 651.683.6969 Ext. 94903
Building: Early Childhood Learning Center, Apple Valley

About Me
I am a Parent Educator and teach ECFE classes in the Green and Rainbow Rooms in Apple Valley. I have been teaching for District 196 for 20 some years. I also work with the Bridge to School program as a parent educator.

My educational background: From high school is southwestern Missouri I went farther west to college at  Brigham Young University in Utah, then to San Jose State in California, then, during the time my husband was in Vietnam I attended Southwestern Missouri State University. I finally graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Stout.  It took me 14 years from start to finish but I did it and managed to raise my family too! I returned to Stout to get a master’s degree in Marriage and Family therapy which I have found useful with my teaching.

The Navy moved my family to Minnesota in 1978 and it was a huge change for all of us from San Diego, California. I have now lived here longer than any other place so now this is home.  My family includes my husband, and seven children.  Our children are living all over the world;  our oldest daughter lives in Okinawa, Japan; our oldest son just retired from the Army and moved to Kansas, we have a daughter in Spokane, Washington; and three sons and a daughter here in Minnesota. I live in a generational family by choice with one of our daughters and her family and it is the best!

For enjoyment I love doing family history research.  I have traced my family back many generations and have helped others do the same.  I also enjoy sewing, cooking and interacting with my grandchildren.

Philosophy
A hundred years from now it will not matter what car you drove, what house you lived in but what will matter is how we as a community came together to rear our children. We were given skills from the past and either hang on to those skills or trade them for something different. I believe our legacy is to give our children and grandchildren the best parenting skills we can learn.

Topics to Grow On

Car Seat Safety

Sibling Relationships

What Makes Raising Boys So Challenging?

Kindergarten Readiness