Lynette, you wrote:

"some of these young mothers are hostile toward information from
us (white instructors) since we are 'rich, privileged, and don't understand
what they are living.' "I'd really appreciate help that would enable me to
connect with Black and Latino mothers."

Would your friend, the school nurse, be able to choose one of the more
mature young mothers and ask her to be your helper?  If the two of you
could work on the content  together, and perhaps she could have a part in
the actual presentation, that might help overcome some of the inherent
resistance toward what most teens rebel against anyway, even without race
issues :), and that would be, of course, the "authority figure"!



--Denny Rice, RN, IBCLC
--Dallas, Texas

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