MTV's 16 and Pregnant

[minDyG]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Do you have personal experience with this?

Yep! I was 19 when I got pregnant with my now 2 and a half year old. She was born after I turned 20, though, so I was never a teen mother! But yeah, telling the parents is quite the bittersweet experience. After you've come to terms with the fact that you're pregnant and gone through all the options in your mind, then faced up to the reality that you're going to be a parent, you have to sit down and tell them this news that is going to immediately disappoint and ultimately delight them. But the night I told my parents was the night I got engaged to my husband, and thinking back on it, I wouldn't have changed a thing about that night!

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by minDyG

Yep! I was 19 when I got pregnant with my now 2 and a half year old. She was born after I turned 20, though, so I was never a teen mother! But yeah, telling the parents is quite the bittersweet experience. After you've come to terms with the fact that you're pregnant and gone through all the options in your mind, then faced up to the reality that you're going to be a parent, you have to sit down and tell them this news that is going to immediately disappoint and ultimately delight them. But the night I told my parents was the night I got engaged to my husband, and thinking back on it, I wouldn't have changed a thing about that night!

Oh wow. So you were a college freshman/sophomore?

Yep, totally couldn't imagine.

Sidenote: It annoys me when the girls ask for help from the babydaddies, and they say "Well, I work everyday and all you do is stay home with the baby."

Last I checked, that wasn't exactly a walk in the park. Heck, when I babysit, by the end of the day I am shoving the kids out the door.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Oh wow. So you were a college freshman/sophomore?

Yep, totally couldn't imagine.

Sidenote: It annoys me when the girls ask for help from the babydaddies, and they say "Well, I work everyday and all you do is stay home with the baby."

Last I checked, that wasn't exactly a walk in the park. Heck, when I babysit, by the end of the day I am shoving the kids out the door.

Right! Being a stay at home parent is the equivalent of 2-3 jobs.

On that note: Being a working parent who is also the primary caregiver is the equivalent of 3 jobs. You get off of your paid fulltime job and go home to your unpaid (overworked and underappreciated) fulltime job.