Teens: Do you honestly think you could make a good parent?

I'm just wondering, if you did fall pregnant, do you think you could handle it? Do you think you could continue your studies? Do you think you'd be able to raise the child ';right'; so they can grow up and become responsible adults? Tell your age to please!Teens: Do you honestly think you could make a good parent?
14, and honest to God, i could.


I always loved babies from day 1.


I had lots of little baby cousins and 2 little brothers.


My mother is a childcare coordinator at my church and therefore i work in the nursery ALL the time.


I can change a diaper in 2 seconds flat, make a baby stop crying just as fast, i know everything about feeding, formula, schedules for feeding and naps and stuff, i know when a cry is because of a belly ache and when it's for hunger or sleepiness............





i'm just a natural born mother figure.





and they are attached to me in a way that they feel a snese of safety......idk.





i think i could...i'd rather not though :]Teens: Do you honestly think you could make a good parent?
Well ifell pregnant when i was 15 and now 17. I personally think that i make a real god mother, but also a great father. I am 17 yrs and I am still in school and i am going to be a senior next year. I am planning to go to collage to give my son a better life. I think that a good mother doesent depend on the age. Being a teen mother is extremely complicated especially when you are raising your child alone playing the role of mother and father to him. I think that you can be a great mother at the age of 17 and in some case, you can be a better mother than someone who is older than you. I think that i am showing my son (1.5 Yrs old) the right stuff and i am incredible bless to have great help from my parents and my son's paternal grandma because if it wasent for them, i dont know how i could handle it.
I am very responsible too but i know for a fact that i could not handle having a child right now. I am only 13. I know that having a baby takes alot of work, During the first few months after the baby is born it wakes up ALOT during the night, i would have to get up, feed the baby, change the diaper, and get the baby back to sleep. Then i would have to wake up at 5:00a.m. to get ready for school myself. If i were to have a child my baby would be 5 years old, starting Kindergarten when i am just finishing my senior year in high school. Also i would have to get a job and be able to afford diapers, formula, food, and all of the necessities that a baby would need while still trying to finish middle and high school and get good grades to try to continue my education. I don't think that i could give the child all of the attention it deserves to grow up and become a responsible adult





So all in all -No i do not think i could make a good parent at the age of 13-
I'm 17 years old and I KNOW that if I were to get pregnant right now I would be a GREAT parent. Not tryna sound big headed or anything but I'm bery mature for my age and I know the reality of being a teen parent. I know you give more love than you get and I know how hard it is to balance having a baby, school, work and other things. But if I were to find myself in that situation I'd put in 110% to guarantee that my child has a great life and I wouldn't settle for anything less. I'm a very determined and hard working person and very little can hold me back. I've already been through a lot in my life and so I would see this as a challenge but one that I could definitely make it through successfully. Even so, I'm not stupid enough to intentionally get pregnant despite how much I adore children. I don't think 10 years from now I'd be able to love my child anymore but I'd be more stable financially and I'd have a job. It's hard to raise a kid without money and a job.
Well i know i could, seeing that it has already happened, i was in the 11th grade when i had my baby, i graduated high school with honors, and had a great job and fully supported my baby, i go to college now, i work part time and enjoy spending the rest of the time with my daughter : )





I can say that it was extremely hard and still is but i know i am going to raise a responsible little girl regardless of my age, and teach her the values that i hold closely,
13 going on 14. I don't think that I would make a good parent. I'm not mature enough or emotionally ready yet to have a baby. My life is crazy all by it's self so why would I bring an Innocent baby into this world. I wouldn't be able to continue my studies because I'll be to busy focusing on my baby. Plus I'm not even sexually active right now and I'm not planning to be into I get married. So if I had a baby it probably wouldn't end up as well as it ought to be.
Honestly, no.





I'm terrible with priorities, and I'm going to have so much work this upcoming school year (my senior year), a kid is like suicide. I'd try my best but I think in the end, I'd end up giving up on school for the sake of the kid, which I really don't want to do because I love learning, even though I have trouble focusing sometimes.





And even after school, and married, I don't think I'd make a good parent. I like to think I will be. I've got a lot of love to give, and I like little kids, but I don't think I'd be a good mom. I'd get controlling b/c I'd be worrying about them all the time and I wouldn't want them to get hurt. I'd probably spoil them too. So no. My kid'd end up a screw up and an outcast.
well ready or not they will be responsible i hope. if they are in middle school it will be very hard if they dont have supportive parents to give her a hand,me as an adult i have issues with daycare imagine a child having babies. raising child right-i would be concern about that question, if the child having babies is not responsible themselves there is no way he/she will teach the child from right to wrong unless he/she is mature.
Umm. Well I def. wouldnt make the mistake of getting preg in the first place. But if I ever did, I'd try and be the best mom I could. I would prob keep it. I can make it, I can raise it. I'd have alot of support. I hope they'd gros up to be responsible and hopefully not become another teen parent. I would without a doubt finish school. I would prob have to do home schooling, to stay home though. It'd be REALLY hard, but I know I could do it. btw, i'm 14.
I'm not planning on having a baby until after I am done with college but I honestly think that I could be a good parent. My mom just had a baby and he is 7 months old. I have learned a lot more about being a mom, and babies! I babysat a lot before (I still do) and I thought I would be a good mom, but now I know that I probably couldn't have done it then! I think that I could keep my grades up. Yeah, I think I could be a great parent and could raise my baby right! I just turned 15 by the way.
getting pregnant at a young age wouldnt happen to me because i believe in waiting to have sex till im older. however between my varsity sports, 4 full time extra cirriculars, being a high school student, having advanced classes, and balancing my busy social life i think it would be too hard to be a parent. right now my priorities are school and friends adding a child would be hectic. ive been babysitting for five years and that along is enough to make me want to wait. i have no doubt in my mind ill be a great parent when im older.
Ha! No!





I can't take care of FISH let alone A KID





I'm too immature


I wouldn't be able to handle any of it mentally or physically





But if I DID end up pregnant, which the chances are VERY VERY SLIM, I'd take responsibility for my actions and be the best parent I could possibly be. I would stay in school, and try to teach them how to be a good person and not make the same mistake.








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yes, I'm 15 and I am pregnant


I know it'll be hard but I can do it, and I personally don't think a child being raised ';right'; has anything to do with the age. I think it has to do with the parent(s) principles and values. I also hope my baby learns from my mistakes. As far as my studies go, I would be in honors anymore but I wont fail I know that for sure.





good question =)
If I was to get pregnant today, I could handle it. I would continue my studies, job, and raise the child right.





Honestly, I am mature for my age and if I had a baby thrown at me I could take care of them. I've babysat since I was 11, have a little sister, and tons of little cousins. I've babysat a 3 month old for a week straighten while his parents were on vacation. I am ready.











I'd make a great mom.
Ive been taking care of puppies for a long time but I dont think I could take care of a baby. I dont think I could ever get pregnant cause I dont have a bf, Im not sexually active, but only if I got raped. In that case I would have the doctors give me a morning after pill. I think thats what a lot of women are doing now. Now that there's the pill Id rather that over abortion. Im 16 and I have to say Im the biggest klutz in the whole world lol. I hate children under 10 anyway.
i could do it if necessary... but i wouldn't want to and i couldn't offer a financially stable life for my baby. i'm waiting until i'm at least 25+





i think i'm mature enough and i'm a fast learner so i'd be able to take good care of a child, just minus anything that would cost money lol. i'm 18 and have 4 more years of college!
No, right now in my life I don't have a job or the time for a child. If I were to have child, I would wait till I was older and I was able to handle a child financially and I want to be done with school and the father in their life too.
no i don't think i will be able to habdle it specially because i took a child development class and we had to take the fake babys home and just by that experience i now i can't handle i child at my age .(16)
Well I am almost 20, but I feel that I could. I have a stable job, and am in a stable relationship, we make enough to support a family. And I am super good with kids. Mentally, crying does not stress me out.
Im 13 and there is absolutely no way i could be a parent and keep up with school. Rasing a baby is hard work. It is a 24/7 job.
yes I am very mature for age. yes I would finish high school.


yes because she/he would have a very good grandma and great grandfather and great uncle.
I'm fourteen and no-- that's why I'm not getting myself pregnant anytime soon.
well im 14 and i have a little girl and i think im a good mom but i also have had a lot of help
im 13 i think i have not yet reached a matureity level to raise a child
yep i think i could! im 16, but dont plan any kids anytime soon!
well im 14 (15 next thursday!) and honestly i dont think i could handle it
Well, I was a teen mother and I made it work... I'm 20 years old with a 31 month old daughter named Kennedy.





I got pregnant when I was 16 and a senior in high school. I graduated high school second in my class with a 4.1 GPA when I was 17 and 4 months pregnant and Kennedy was born on November 4, 2005, when I was 17 1/2...





I started college in January 2006, a semester late, but I'm already through my third year and I'm graduating next June.





I am independent and extremely self sufficient. My daughter has everything she needs and wants plus much more.





My daughter and I live with my mom, sister and nieces, not because I can't afford a place of our own, but because I think it's great that my daughter is able to be with her cousins everyday... And I love being with my family!





I'm not on any kind of government aid, not even financial aid for school... In fact, if you look at the statistics you will find that there the majority of mother's on welfare are in their 30's...





I'm not a slut or a whore, in fact I've only slept with one person, my daughter's father, who I was with for over a year before we decided to have sex... And we did use protection, I was on the pill and he always wore a condom, but one night it broke... I didn't think anything of it because I was on the BC, but then 6 weeks later the stick turned pink...





I wasn't planning on getting pregnant at 16, but it happened and I'm so glad it did... My daughter is my everything and I couldn't imagine life without my little angel!!!





I know a lot of older mother's that are a lot worse parents than I am. I know that I'm a great mother and my family knows it and most importantly my daughter knows it! My little girl is happy, healthy and smart and I know I am doing everything right! It's not always easy being a teen parent, but at the same time it's not easy being a parent at all...
im13 too and i don't think i could handle it....i would get an abortion