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So recently I went to a training in D.C and I learned something brand new about myself- teen parents can’t be good parents! You know I was so glad that I was able to learn this about myself, especially from someone that I didn’t know and who didn’t know me.
I am 19 years old, a student at UNC Chapel Hill, and a mother to a 15 month old. All these things I claim proudly, but I never knew that a “bad parent” was also a title that I should link to my name. But then again that’s what happens when you live in a world filled with stereotypes.
I became pregnant my junior year in high school and since that time, my life changed dramatically. My life no longer consisted solely of me but rather another life as well. My senior year of high school that I had greatly anticipated turned out to be nothing like I had planned. The trip to New York with my marching band to play in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the senior prom that I was dying for, or the simple joys of just enjoying my last year in high school sort of went out the window. This was because I made a conscious decision to put daughter before myself- but I guess that’s what every “bad” parent does right?
Instead of enjoying the college life and going out on the weekends I make the car ride back home to see my little girl. Weekends that should be spent studying are spent taking care of my little girl and making sure that she understands that mommy loves her and that everything I do I do for her. But yet again these are all the things that a “bad” parent does.
I’m 19 years old, a student at UNC Chapel Hill and a mother to a 15 month old. But what many people fail to realize is that even though I am a young mother, I am also a very GOOD mother. When it comes to taking care of my little girl, that is my number one priority, a priority that at times fails to take precedence in the mind of even older parents.
So for those people that decided to “tell me about myself”…Thank you!
