Parenting Sally bounces her six-month-old boy on her knee while she responds enthusiastically to my questions. At twenty-six she is a relatively young mother; however, Sally had her first child when she was only eighteen. A wasn't using any birth control at the time," she tells me. "I was really worried that I wouldn't be able to support my kid without dropping out of college, but I made it! Joey here wasn't

Parenting Education for Teen Mothers If a community values its children, it must cherish their parents. (John Bowlby) Rationale of intervention population Group based intervention programs Multi-purpose programs Teen Mother Empowerment Program Series (TMEPS) Framework of TMEPS Program-Fig Fig 2-Phased TMEPS Phase 1 sessions Table 1- Session Administration Lesson Plans Evaluation of program outcomes Follow-up plan Continuation of TEMPS Appendix II-Program Evaluation Questionnaire This paper is aimed at presenting a parenting education and support program for teenage mothers. To identify the most basic needs of

Breast pumping techniques. Introduction to Internet and print resources for new mothers. Introduction to social networking and support groups for new mothers in her area. Teaching Strategies Used and Rationale The teacher and learner will have a high degree of privacy in the hospital room during the teaching project. Therefore, lessons on breastfeeding will be comfortable and cause little embarrassment for the learner. Having privacy will help the learner feel relaxed and willing to

In "Piaf," Pam Gems provides a view into the life of the great French singer and arguably the greatest singer of her generation -- Edith Piaf. (Fildier and Primack, 1981), the slices that the playwright provides, more than adequately trace her life. Edith was born a waif on the streets of Paris (literally under a lamp-post). Abandoned by her parents -- a drunken street singer for a mother and a

However, certain elements of traditional Christian theology are centered on Mary, and the degree of emphasis that those elements receive can be very telling about Mary's actual role in the religion. For example, the connection between female chastity and religious observance seems to have been established by God's choice of a Virgin to carry his son. God did not have to choose a virgin to bear his child, but

There are many of these individuals, and it is time that this is changed. Parents often look away from these kinds of problems, or they spend their time in denial of the issue because they feel that their child will not be harmed by parental involvement with drugs or alcohol. Some parents have parents that were/are addicts themselves, and some are so busy with their lives that they do not