He said he would review all policies, speed up plans to improve parenting and education and turn around the lives of 120, 000 "troubled" families.
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How infants learn and process language and emotions is important in helping to develop best parenting practices and early education programs, experts say.
And he wants to encourage responsible parenting by strengthening character education in the nation's schools, distributing money to voluntary groups that promote fatherhood and marriage education.
Another Obama proposal is Promise Neighborhoods, which would make grants available to low-income communities to start comprehensive education and parenting programs similar to New York's successful Harlem Children's Zone program.
Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.
The nurses offer guidance in areas such as child development, preventative health measures, parenting skills, breastfeeding, better diet information and on education and employment.
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These women were managing all the challenges of parenting -- arranging health care, childcare, and education -- thousands and thousands of miles away from their homes and loved ones.
"Despite enormous advances for women and girls in education since 1972, schools across the country continue to bar pregnant and parenting students from activities, kick them out of school, pressure them to attend alternative programmes, and penalise them for pregnancy-related absences, " the centre said in the report.
Shadow education minister Baroness Hughes of Stretford urged the government to invest in projects that develop parenting skills.
Liberal Democrat Baroness Walmsley, who advises her party on education, families and young people, welcomed his words and said "we need to accept that parenting can be learned".
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