Besides giving lessons to the children, Ms. Barry also often talks to the moms. She is very fond of teaching these mothers how to read to their children successfully. The women—many of them immigrants, love her class because there nobody cares whether every word is pronounced correctly. “We are not just teaching the mothers how to read to their children—we are teaching them the importance of reading to their children,” she says. “The philosophy at Mercy is that if you educate the woman of the house, you’re going to educate the whole family