If Only There Was a Class on Parenting for Teenagers!!

Today after lunch my friends and I went outside to get some air. While sitting outside we witnessed a very disturbing image.

A teenager was walking by with something on her shoulder. She was talking to a girlfriend of hers while the thing on her shoulder was just dangling like a rag. One of my friends turns and says, "Oh my God, is that a baby on her shoulder?" We all turn and look closely and what do we see? a baby not more than a month old dangling from this "child's" shoulder. When I say dangling, I'm not just exaggerating for effect. She had the baby on her right shoulder, walking with her right arm resting on the side. Her left arm was resting on the baby's back. At that point we're all looking at her with open mouths and we're not trying to hide our displeasure at the way she's holding the baby. All I kept thinking was, "doesn't she know that newborns need to have their heads supported because they don't have the strength to do it themselves?" We were speaking about how dangerous it is to hold a baby the way she was, at which point the girl turns to us, grabs the baby and positions her/him on her other shoulder and keeps walking.

Looking at that only affirms my believe that children should not bare children. They have no training, and most don't know how to take care of themselves. So many girls decide to have a child not because she has thought about what it takes to take care of a child but because she has reasons (which happen to be terrible reasons) to bring a defenseless creature into this world. I read somewhere about a 16 year old asking for advice. She had been dating someone for about a month and she wanted to have his child because she loved him so very much. She said his ex girlfriend wanted him back and she was afraid he would leave her and go back to his ex. She stated that she knew him since they were little and she believed it was the right thing to do. Things like that just anger me. The lack of thought, maturity and respect in that decision astounds me.

Please, if you read this blog and are a teenager, think about the decisions you make before you make them. Think about the consequences those decisions will have on your future. Do you honestly think that in this day and age a child will keep a man from leaving you? Who do you think will suffer the most from your decision?

If that's not enough to consider please consider that this beautiful creature, who by the way, had no say in the matter, will need you for the rest of her/his life and you have to be prepare to provide everything and anything that child needs. If you cannot be the best parent by yourself, don't make a decision you will likely regret later in your life!