Having A Child at a Young Age

You make a lot of sense. Children at a young age is fabulous if you spend the kind of time with them as needed and teach them values in life. Yes, they do what they see their parents do. Children are not asked to be born, they have to accept what parents put out there for them and they are counting on us to be the parents we need to be for them. You are so right. I wish everybody felt this way. You make a lot of sense. glowin100

I was a mother with 17 years old (my eldest is 27 now) and all my kids have great jobs and a great education. So have I. If I am honest I do believe I had much more time/energy as I was a young mother as now I am an old one (my youngest is 5 years old). Perhaps my kids don't see the difference but I feel it. I don't believe that being a young mother is of any influence on your education or your kids. I had not family or relatives who helped me out. Everybody dumped me. Still I made it. It's just what you want to do with your life and what kind of life you want for your kids. And yes.. as a young mom you should reach for the sun and not be satisfied with less. My eldest kids say they had a great childhood and I was a great mom and I still am. We never had problems if it came to raising them, teenager stuff etc. So young mothers (and old mothers) don't use your age as an excuse not tot be able to study, work etc. It is all possible as long as you really want it.

Welcome to Mylot! I agree. It seems that every story involving a young mother results in the mother giving up on life and failing at every thing she does, and eventually becoming a very negligent other. But it's true: if you truly care about your child and hope that they'll achieve a better future, you'd get an education to help support your child and inspire them to work harder and achieve a better education later in life. If these people truly cared about their children, they would do all of this to help them. And I'm glad you did :) Happy mylotting!

For me not so easy so be good take a look it yes it is true but if you have many problem to it it's not good and you feel not to focus in any thing.

First of all, welcome to mylot! I hope you enjoy your stay here. Well, I definitely agree on what you said. My grandparents married at a very young age, my grandpa was like 18 and grandma 16. They had their first child 2 years later, and they eventually got blessed with NINE CHILDREN :). My mom was the third eldest, anyway even though my grandparents weren't able to finish their studies and just pursue their career as farmers, they managed to have 8 of their children finish college, one of my uncle was not able to finish college because he married at an early age as well. Anyway, as you can see, it really depends on the determination of the couple or parents to try their best to give their children a good future or better to be good examples in spite of what they have been through before.

i dont think it is wise and sane to have kids at a young age. because maybe you will not be ready for them and mature enough to grow them up they way you should. it should be a goal for anyone. but a goal with some standards.

I think that having a child at a younger age might be good for some people as it means that they will be able to have a good life when their child is grown up. My friend has her baby girl at 16, and she will only be 34 when the child is 18 and able to leave home, and this means that she will be able to start to live her life again when her child starts her own life as an adult. Young Mums get far too much bad press at the moment, and this is very unfair as many of them are some of the best parents that I have ever met in my entire life.

i agree with you..young parent should also think of the positive side on having a children at young age.i can relate with this discussion since my parents married at the young age, it was really difficult, according to them at first but later on, they moved on with their lives and tried so hard to raise us.and now, many people envy them because their children are already professionals and their age are just at early 40's.