Teaching Materials for Pregnant and Parenting Teens

If you work with pregnant and parenting teens, this is the series you've been waiting for. This four-book series titled Transitions: A Series for Pregnant and Parenting Teens speaks to teens in an engaging, friendly and nonjudgmental style. Each book provides straightforward, practical and relevant information about the transitions pregnancy and parenting bring. Easy to read with colorful charts, these books contain photos and design elements illustrating important concepts. The four separate books in the Transitions series allow you to provide the text most suited to each teen's current needs, beginning with pregnancy and continuing through the years following childbirth.

Understanding Your Changing Life by Linda G. Smock, CFCS, addresses many of the changes teens will experience as a result of pregnancy and parenting. Part One helps teens adjust to a newly discovered pregnancy and guides them through some of the tough decisions they face. Topics include: telling others, building self-esteem, examining values, setting goals, making decisions and considering options related to the pregnancy. Part Two describes relationship changes teens can expect if they parent. Topics include: adjusting to parenthood; relationships with family, friends and the co-parent; partner relationships; sexual decision-making; birth-control; STDs; communication; and crises in relationships.

1-56637-850-8. List: $21.20. Net: $15.90.

Your New Baby by Angela M. Nicoletti, RNC, WHNP, takes some of the fear and mystery out of pregnancy and childbirth. This text can help teens know what to expect during pregnancy, labor, delivery and the postpartum period. Topics include: how pregnancy occurs and is detected; prenatal development; eating, exercise, and health care recommendations; preparations for parenting; labor and delivery; the postpartum period; and newborn care.

1-56637-851-6. List: $21.20. Net: $15.90

Helping Your Child Grow and Develop by Karen Zimmerman, Ph.D., is written especially for teen parents. It suggests practical ideas for promoting development, identifying and meeting a child's needs, providing a safe and nurturing environment, guiding behavior and choosing quality childcare. Developmental Milestones charts describe the physical, intellectual, emotional and social development of infants and toddlers from the child's point of view.

1-56637-852-4. List: $21.20. Net: $15.90

Building Your Future by Sally R. Campbell shares with teen parents the simple, yet thorough, information they will need to manage their lives, their families and their futures. It explains how to find the help they need, handle various legal issues; manage money and resources; become a wise consumer; use insurance, credit and financial accounts; set career and educational goals; find a job; and become a successful worker.

1-56637-853-2. List: $21.20 Net: $15.90

Teacher's Resource Guides support the instruction of each of the books in the Transitions series. The guides contain teaching strategies; vocabulary and review activities; reproducible, transparency and test masters; and answer keys.