Being A Teen Mom

I chose to read the article titled, Parenting: The Teen Years. I chose this article because it appealed to me, considering I am still a teenager myself. While the article was fairly short, it gave useful information for parents, especially new parents. I feel if more people knew about the helpful information such as warning signs of distressed teens, parents would be more confident on how to address certain common issues they had with their children. As the article states, many teens feel some amount of disconnect from their parents, and I think it would benefit all people to know how to talk to their teenagers as well as how to relate and sympathize.

Throughout majority of the movie you think the guy is doing everything wrong. You start to question his parenting skills when you see that their apartment is filled with toys, and that he doesn’t send her to school but instead go to Disneyland. Then, the twist comes and you realize that you've been seeing things all wrong. He just wants his daughter to have the best life and spent the most possible time with her, because he found out that her daughter is going to die. Despite the movie being in mostly Spanish, the message translated through this film will tug at your heartstrings. From the beginning to the end there is combinations of laughs and emotions that through one way or another anyone can relate. It talks about the challenges and sacrifices parents have to face for their children. It also shows, that parents go out of their way and will risk many things to protect their children from getting hurt, even from their own families. Also, how important it is to spend family and quality time with their children because, we are not guaranteed how much time we will have with

While Carmen helping poor people Esperanza confused because she didn’t think of poor can help each other. She was confused because the way she raised were different compared to other people. Finally, Esperanza realized that there are more profound aspects in life than being

Finally, she had people who understood her and were willing to listen to her. She had people who believed in her, stood by her when she had her baby. The girls were not perfect, she had some not so good moments with them but even in their imperfections, they were people she could relate with. Being able to read her story to them, and hear their story, gave her a sense of belonging. When Ms Rain asked her how she feels participating in class she said “I feel here”. This is an indication of a sense of belonging.

She walks into the living room where all her family was sitting, and they all look at her and ask “what’s the news?”. She was very disappointed in herself she thought how could she let it happen? she was too young at 16, she didn’t have a job, and she didn’t even know if the father was going to be there for her. The family looked concerned as she was about to burst into tears, her eyes filled with sadness, and then she said “I'm pregnant”. They all looked at her in disappointment, they thought she was going to be the one to pursue her dreams of becoming a nurse, to actually have a degree, but even though they were disappointed in her they knew that they had to help her raise the baby. She felt upset she didn’t know how she was going to do it while still going to school, she still had two more years ahead, and she was due late May. Even though she had her family who was supporting her she still had to take responsibility for her actions, she had decided that she would have to drop out of school, and start working to take care of her upcoming baby.

Before we began to build our family, my husband and I were both working full time jobs at an upwards of 60 hours a week. This was practical at the time, but I knew I could not continue to do so with an infant. This led me to leave my job of 3 years just before giving birth. After a few months, I debated long and hard on returning to work. After very careful consideration, I decided the best thing to do for everyone would be for me to stay home. I knew that being a stay at home mom would be hard. More importantly, I also knew that my daughter needed me to be there for her. It helped me learn that the plan you may have for yourself may not be the best plan for everyone else; being able to compromise for loved ones is always important.

The character Gaby Rodriguez in the novel The Pregnancy Project, written by Gaby Rodriguez and Jenna Glatzer, changes throughout the years and understands what it is like to be living in a world of stereotypes. Living in a family filled with past generations of teen pregnancies, Gaby was often told she would end up like her sisters. From other people’s perspectives, this was a family tradition. As her senior project, she faked a pregnancy to get reactions from her friends, family, and the community to see how she would be treated. Gaby went through many hardships to understand what a teen mom has to deal with on a day to day basis.

Despite teenage pregnancy rates dropping more than fifty percent in recent years, it is within the Hispanic community that teen pregnancy continues to remain a serious public and social issue. When compared to other ethnic sectors in the United States, Hispanic females continue to hold a higher birth rate than others, being twice more than that of non-Hispanics. In general, there are the many apparent obstacles and consequences when dealing with this situation. Young adult parents must overcome educational, financial, and emotional problems months before their child is born.

American teenagers take a lot of things for granted, but what we don’t take into consideration is what would happen if these things suddenly disappeared. Teenage life consists of school, jobs, driving, friends, sports, and going out with friends. We never consider others’ way of life. In some cultures, they are just fighting to stay alive, while others don’t have the freedom to go out with friends, or play a certain sport. They are so consumed in family life or their future jobs that they have no social life. No one ever thinks what would happen if their way of life was completely turned around. This concept is shown on a reality television show called 16 and Pregnant. It follows a group of teenage girls throughout their pregnancy and a

Basically there is a very important lesson one can learn for the process of growing up. In “Growing Up,” by Gary Soto, one needs to learn to be grateful and respectful towards her family. She is learning to be

The mother's attitude changes in the sense that although her daughter will run into obstacles and hardships while growing up, she needs to sit back and enjoy the journey. She realizes that her daughter wants happiness and even though letting go is painful, this will be best for both of their futures. There will sure be some bumps along the way as the daughter pursues her future, but the mother believes her daughter will be just fine in the end due to everything she's taught her. Even though parents teach their children all they know about this frightening world, eventually they have to make their children lead their own paths and begin their own

Group homes for pregnant teens and government programs assisting young mothers could improve the chances for this population. According to Krauss and Cross, pregnant teen girls who receive support through housing are capable of becoming parents and effective community members (2013). Homeless women who do not receive support may find themselves in a cycle of desperate survival not learning valuable skills to raise a healthy child. They may lose their ability to pursue their own dreams in life. An excellent example of the impact comes from a true story demonstrated by Krauss and Cross when Apple’s mother describes the impact of becoming pregnant as a teenager and having no one to help her. “You fighting for your baby, and you’re so young and

The purpose of this paper is to describe the risk of transmitting caries-inducing bacteria from mother to child and to educate teen mothers about preventing such bacterial transfer.  Dental caries are not often thought of as a contagious disease, but it can be.  Many common parenting behaviors can contribute to the transfer of oral bacteria to the child.  Teen mothers may be unaware of or uneducated about risky behaviors and caries prevention.  Educating teen mothers about how to prevent bacterial transfer may reduce the incidence of childhood caries in the community.

Her mother didn’t play with her, she missed her mom so much, she often would wonder how her life would have been if her mom was around to raise her, she thought, of how she wanted it to be. Namely, going to school, living the life she had always planned, she always wanted to live a life without sin. She knew that for sure she knew how to be a decent woman. She thought since she made her mistake by becoming a teenage mom, she can restore it by continuing her walk with Christ and continue to make do with her career, Victoria never wanted to give up on her dreams. That fantasy was short lived, again with the same person, you would’ve thought she had learned from her first experience with Jose. Especially, her seeing this creature like a demon pulling the prison bars apart.

Being a parent of three teenage children, one would think that I have all or some of the answers for what makes a successful adolescent, but I don’t. This course has really made me look at parenting; I’ve had to reflect on what my husband and I am doing right and wrong, and what we can change? What did our parents do that worked with us or what didn’t work? Through the course, I have come to surmise that a successful adolescent is one who, when he or she reaches adulthood, they are responsible for themselves, independent of their parents, have a job that they enjoy, know who they are, delight in good friends and have physical and mental wellness. There are other aspects of life that would be welcomed, but I don’t think are necessities or something that one can guarantee, such as, finding a partner for life or having little or no major problems. The next question is how to get there? Lots of prayers would be my first suggestion. Parents, other adult influences, and peers are one way to aid or hinder the success of the adolescent through intimacy and trust. Brain development is very important for success in adulthood. Along with brain development comes self-efficacy, self-identity, moral development, and emotional maturation. As the child grows into adolescence, they then need to deal with the influences of others, culture, media and so on. Hopefully, they will be able to handle stress, gain autonomy, have initiative, resist the culture to be themselves and contribute to