FOR RELEASE: Jan. 8, 1997
Contact: Susan Lang
Office: (607) 255-3613
Internet: [email protected]
Compuserve: Larry Bernard 72650,565
http://www.news.cornell.edu
ITHACA, N.Y. -- What educators can teach young parents about becoming good
parents is the topic of a new and revised curriculum from Cornell
University.
Teens as Parents of Babies and Toddlers: A Resource Guide for Educators is
a 220-page curriculum full of worksheets, diagrams, lists, illustrations,
discussion questions, fact sheets and resources for educators to use in
developing classes and workshops with teen parents to try to prevent the
potential negative effects of adolescent parenthood.
Topics include identifying support networks, dealing with stress and
crises, controlling violence, sewing skills, infant and toddler
development, making a memory book, feeding, understanding temperaments,
play activities, crying, discipline, difficult babies, bedtime problems,
language development, separation issues, toilet training, identifying good
child care, food activities, recipes, health and safety issues, nutrition,
working with doctors, when to call a doctor and much more.
"Increasingly, schools are realizing the need to help teens who are parents
finish school while simultaneously learning parenting skills. These steps
can go a long way in avoiding the potentially devastating effects of an
adolescent pregnancy," said Jennifer Birckmayer, the first author of the
publication and a human development specialist in the Department of Human
Development and Family Studies in the New York State College of Human
Ecology at Cornell.
Birckmayer co-authored the publication with teen parent educator Katherine
Mabb of Questar III, the BOCES in Hudson; cooperative extension educator
Bonnie-Jo Westendorf of Columbia County; and cooperative extension agent
Jerridith Wilson of Onondaga County. The large-format, soft-cover guide
revises an earlier 1989 publication.
Teens as Parents of Babies and Toddlers: A Resource Guide for Educators is
$25. Price includes shipping and handling. Copies are available from the
Cornell University Resource Center, 7BTP, Ithaca, NY 14850, or from Cornell
Cooperative Extension offices throughout New York.
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EDITORS: A review copy may be obtained by contacting Carol Doolittle,
(607) 255-5830, fax (607) 255-9873 or e-mail
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