Parent training on a daily basis has a positive effect on the number of verbal interactions between mother and infant. However, parent training did not seem to be a factor influencing the social-emotional and physical development activities of the teenage mothers in this study. Three groups of teenage mothers were observed with their infants in…

This action research project describes an educational program to develop parenting skills among pregnant high school students. The evidence of students' lack of parenting skills included observations by the researcher, student responses to questionnaires, and sub-optimal growth and development in the infants and children. The educational program…