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Let's start this out with me warning you about the fact that I am running on about four hours of sleep, angry at my neighbors who seem to have no respect and just plain tired beyond all reason.
I was browsing the web tonight, as I usually do just before bed and I found a young girls vlog. This girl was about 14 or 15, somewhere in there. She seemed to have it all, she wrote her own music, had some albums and a family who really seemed to be pushing her for everything. What does this girl do? She had a baby! This girl was still a child herself, not trully capable of making decisions for herself. Not even done growing!
Let's set the record here. I was a mom at 17 and gave birth to a beautiful daughter. STOP! Most people would say after that "and I never looked back." I'm gonna level with you. I did look back. I always looked back. I thought many times and did the what if game. My biggest "what if" was, what if I had never looked at that ultrasound picture and went through with an adoption as originally planned. Would Gerileigh have everything she wanted and needed? Would her future schooling be secured? Would she have the two loving parents she deserved? Truth is, I will never know. I love her to pieces and she is my one and only girl. I wouldn't change a thing if I could.
That said, if I knew then what I know now, I would probably have waited a lot longer to have my children. Moreso to secure their futures and ensure they had all that they needed and wanted. I love them and wouldn't give them up now that I have them.
Even in all of this. I don't believe teenagers should have kids now. WAIT! For the love of God, just WAIT! There is a right time.
P.S. Nobody buys your "the condom broke" story
I was browsing the web tonight, as I usually do just before bed and I found a young girls vlog. This girl was about 14 or 15, somewhere in there. She seemed to have it all, she wrote her own music, had some albums and a family who really seemed to be pushing her for everything. What does this girl do? She had a baby! This girl was still a child herself, not trully capable of making decisions for herself. Not even done growing!
Let's set the record here. I was a mom at 17 and gave birth to a beautiful daughter. STOP! Most people would say after that "and I never looked back." I'm gonna level with you. I did look back. I always looked back. I thought many times and did the what if game. My biggest "what if" was, what if I had never looked at that ultrasound picture and went through with an adoption as originally planned. Would Gerileigh have everything she wanted and needed? Would her future schooling be secured? Would she have the two loving parents she deserved? Truth is, I will never know. I love her to pieces and she is my one and only girl. I wouldn't change a thing if I could.
That said, if I knew then what I know now, I would probably have waited a lot longer to have my children. Moreso to secure their futures and ensure they had all that they needed and wanted. I love them and wouldn't give them up now that I have them.
Even in all of this. I don't believe teenagers should have kids now. WAIT! For the love of God, just WAIT! There is a right time.
P.S. Nobody buys your "the condom broke" story
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