My name is Candy! I was born in Hong Kong, lived in the upper part of Canada where I could see the Northern Lights, and moved down to California to pursue sunshine and graduate studies at Stanford University. 

 

Reasons for starting Hoppity Learning:

My passion is to help children feel loved and become happy, confident, and resilient individuals. More than a decade ago, many high schoolers in the SF Bay Area attempted suicide and one of them was taught by me in a volunteering setting. I realized that many social and life skills should be taught at a young age, so I left my research engineering job, went back to school to pursue a Master of Divinity degree and a California Child Development Permit, and started my own preschool.

 

During COVID, I came to know two college students who committed suicide and they were from loving and caring families. With 10+ years of teaching experience plus 20+ years of volunteering in guiding college students and young professionals, I knew that these students needed a good foundation of social-emotional learning (SEL) skills to overcome life challenges.

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Parents are actually the most influential people to support their children's SEL growth. Their positive parental support can provide tremendous benefits to children's brain development, so that these SEL skills can be wired in their brains and applied in their daily lives. I know that it's effective as my dad, who passed away 10+ years ago, had coached me through many valleys in my study, career, dating, marriage, and parenting. So, I started Hoppity Learning to teach both parents and children SEL skills, and equip parents to become their children's SEL coaches, even well after graduation.

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