[ti:A Class Where Teens Learn Mothering, and Are Mothered]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:Education Report]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is the VOA Special English
[00:03.34]Education Report.
[00:05.08]Parents are a child's
[00:07.14]first teachers.
[00:08.88]But some parents never learned
[00:11.12]from good examples.
[00:13.05]In New York City,
[00:14.42]a nonprofit agency called
[00:17.03]Covenant House tries to help
[00:19.64]homeless young mothers
[00:21.45]become good parents.
[00:23.56](SOUND)
[00:29.84]The twelve or so teenagers
[00:32.02]who live at the shelter
[00:33.70]attend parenting classes
[00:35.69]four days a week.
[00:37.68]The class is called Mommy and Me.
[00:41.41]Teacher Delores Clemens
[00:43.84]is a mother of five
[00:45.33]and a grandmother.
[00:47.01]She teaches basic skills,
[00:49.50]like how to give a baby a bath
[00:52.17]and how to dress a baby
[00:54.35]depending on the season.
[00:56.17]She remembers one student
[01:00.40]who learned from her mother
[01:02.27]not to pick up a crying baby.
[01:05.25]The mother said that would
[01:07.80]only make the child needy
[01:09.61]and overly demanding.
[01:11.91]DELORES CLEMENS: "I said 'That's not true.
[01:13.84]You have to hold your baby!
[01:15.83]He is crying for a reason.
[01:18.07]If you never pick him up,
[01:19.93]he's going to keep crying.
[01:21.43]Pick your baby up.
[01:22.86]Cuddle your baby. Hug him!
[01:26.15]And she started to doing that.
[01:28.08]They just want a little cuddling
[01:31.88]and a little love.
[01:32.93]And it works! [Laughs]"
[01:35.30]Delores Clemens says
[01:38.94]her students also learn
[01:40.93]how to be good mothers
[01:42.30]by letting themselves be mothered.
[01:45.04]DELORES CLEMENS: "I'm doing something
[01:46.59]for them that never
[01:48.46]has been done for them before."
[01:51.01]Around three hundred fifty
[01:53.25]teenage mothers graduate
[01:55.24]from Covenant House's Mommy
[01:57.42]and Me class every year.
[01:59.97]In class on this day,
[02:02.21]with her baby son, is Natasha.
[02:05.44]She lived on the streets.
[02:07.31]She is glad not only
[02:09.61]for the warmth
[02:10.86]and shelter of Covenant House.
[02:13.03]As she told reporter Adam Phillips,
[02:15.83]she is also glad
[02:17.20]for the help they offer
[02:18.88]in seeking a more secure life.
[02:21.99]NATASHA: "They help you do your resume,
[02:23.92]your cover letter and everything
[02:25.66]you need for a job interview,
[02:27.15]and they help you find a job
[02:28.71]whatever you're interested in."
[02:30.20]REPORTER: "Did you go to high school?"
[02:31.57]NATASHA: "Yes.."
[02:32.81]REPORTER: "Did you graduate?"
[02:33.71]NATASHA: "No, I didn't.
[02:34.65]I was in my last year and then,
[02:37.69]I got pregnant and I got lazy."
[02:39.00]REPORTER: "You look like
[02:40.04]you are willing to accept
[02:41.10]responsibility for that."
[02:42.22]NATASHA: "Yes, I am,
[02:42.84]and I want to finish."
[02:44.08]Some teenage mothers
[02:45.76]wish they themselves could
[02:48.50]be children again.
[02:49.47]Eighteen-year-old Placida
[02:51.33]knows that feeling.
[02:52.89]She says being a mom is hard.
[02:55.62]PLACIDA: "Because you have to
[02:57.05]get up every two hours
[02:58.73]in the middle of the night,
[02:59.73]and you can't go out and say
[03:03.46]'I am going to buy this for myself.'
[03:05.51]No. I have to buy Pampers,
[03:07.50]clothes and food.
[03:09.77]So now it's not only one .
[03:11.76]now it's two.
[03:12.88]So it's very hard."
[03:14.66]The World Health Organization says
[03:17.08]the United States has forty-one births
[03:20.63]for every one thousand girls
[03:22.99]age fifteen to nineteen.
[03:25.60]That is higher than
[03:27.72]other developed countries,
[03:29.52]as well as some developing ones.
[03:32.32]By comparison, northern neighbor
[03:35.62]Canada has fourteen births
[03:38.17]and southern neighbor Mexico
[03:40.60]has eighty-two.
[03:42.46]And that's the VOA Special English
[03:46.19]Education Report, available online
[03:49.18]at 51voa.com and on Facebook
[03:54.40]at VOA Learning English.
[03:57.08]I'm Steve Ember.
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