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Originally Posted by ASU2003
I'm sure MTV or some educational company could make a show about single mothers and how hard their lives are, and how much they have had to change things because they have to take care of a child. And learning about how to take care of babies, toddlers, pre-teens and teenagers from adults would be better than letting them find out the hard way.
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They already HAVE! It's called sixteen and pregnant and millions of teenagers laugh at it each week.
Sigh. Clearly you do not have children. Clearly you have no idea what it is like to string together 3, hour and a half naps between feedings with an 8:00 meeting in front of a CEO. For a teenager, that would be 3 naps before their big math final. The baby does not care that you have a math final. The CEO/teacher does not care that you have a baby. Both have to be done. You are exhausted. Every time you finally get to sleep, the baby starts crying for it's next changing/boob/burping. Then you have to transfer and label the breast milk and put it in the freezer. Then you have to wash the equipment from the breast pump before going back to bed for hopefully another hour and a half.
You, sitting in a chair fully rested, with a coke and a smile could not possibly grasp what that feels like for 6 months straight. It is unrelenting. There is no show that anyone could watch which could prepare a well-fed, well-rested teen for the rigors of a newborn. It is naive to think so.
...and it is all worth it. There is absolutely no greater feeling than being a dad. An adult dad, that is.