I was a teen when I first had my first child, it was hard on me and my boyfriend, because we both wasn't ready for a baby. He was playing football and basketball and I was running track at the time. We haven't finish school yet, and we didn't know anything about taking care of a baby at the time. My mother was against the whole thing, because she thought she was going to get stuck with the baby, while I run the streets. When the baby was born I had to get on Aid, because not one of us had a job, and we needed to feed the baby and buy milk. Now remember I said, We still had to finish school, so I found a school so the baby could go to school with me everyday, because nobody would watch her while I go to school. Getting up everyday at 6:00a.m. getting the baby ready and making milk for the baby, then getting yourself ready, making sure you be at the bus stop at 7:15a.m. to catch the first bus to the first stop, then get on the other bus to be at school on time for your first class. See my mother told me that I would always need her and that I wasn't going to finish school and be on Aid forever, but I had to prove her wrong. I did finish school and graduate and wasn't on Aid that long, got me a good job and was taking care of my baby without her help at all.

Now I'm doing great and my baby is nine years old and I'm living the life that I want to live. The reason I wrote this is to tell you all, just because you have a baby young doesn't mean that you can't do all the things you wanted to do with your life. It may at first be a little hard, but you can accomplish every goal you set for yourself. You have to remember that you have to set a explain for the little person you bring into the world.

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