Hello lovely ladies, My name is Tiki and I was a teenage mom too. Everybody has a purpose in life and for many years I didn't understand what mine was. I felt like I failed myself and disappointed my parents by getting pregnant at such a young age. I understand your mixed emotions, I had them too. I was young and pregnant during a time when people looked at you in shame, shook their head at you, asked you questions like "what you doing having a baby and you just a baby yourself". Parents didn't want you around their daughter cause they thought you were "fast" and would somehow rub pregnancy off onto their child too. A teenage mother was expected to be standing in the welfare line, getting food stamps and government cheese and dropping out of school. I remember people around m always trying to give me advice on how to take care of my babies as if my mind was not mature enough for motherly instinct to kick in. There were no support groups or outreach programs, no people to send me messages of motivation everyday, no one to tell me how hard it was going to be, I had to learn.
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