Remember that ridiculous New York Times piece we wrote about last month that suggested poverty, illiteracy and racial disparity could be wiped out if only an army of "nurses, mentors, therapists and social workers" could be mobilized to teach underclass mothers how to talk to their children?
Berry, who has a 5-year-old daughter, said she wanted to meet and talk with mothers struggling to feed themselves and their children while she was expecting.
The game, called Fast ForWord, is meant to improve phoneme recognition by stretching out and accentuating each sound, much as mothers do when they talk baby-talk, until the child's ear becomes more attuned to the different phonemes.
For example, they may show videotapes modeling the way mothers communicate "mental state" talk to children.
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Ms Ferguson also stressed that health professionals are often reluctant to talk frankly with expectant mothers about behaviours, such as smoking and having an unhealthy diet, which can put unborn children at risk.
Whether that is -- whether that's getting -- you heard the President talk about this in the campaign -- how do we get mothers help that they need even before they have children?
If the Palin family story is discussed at all, it should be in the broader context of how, as parents, we talk to our children about sex and how, as a nation, we support mothers and address teenage pregnancy but not as fodder for public gossip.
She found her answer -- talk about it early and often -- through someone in the widespread network, Single Mothers by Choice.
Mothers who come in intending to breast feed and decide they want some formula will be subject to an educational talk (read: a "breast is best" lecture), and hospital staff will have to document a medical reason before they sign it out.
About 14 years ago, when I was a parent of young children, as preparation for a talk at a doctors' meeting about vaccines, I surveyed (rather informally) parents - mostly mothers of course - waiting in the playground of our local primary school.
His daily talk-in on the airwaves, where Irish people first publicly discussed then-taboo subjects like unmarried mothers, homosexuality, divorce and contraception, has run for 26 years.
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