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First, I want my readers to know that I don't condone my actions that I had a baby at 16 years of age, or that I had gotten married so young. For me, it was the right timing in my life, but it isn't the right timing in today's time. I knew that all I wanted to be was a mother and a wife like my grandmother. She is the one I looked up to for advise and child rearing. I admired my grandmother so much and I trusted her advise more than my mother's. She raised foster kids and she raised my brother and me, while my mom worked. She was a very wise woman.

I was always taking care of somebody's child from the time I was 10 years old. If it wasn't my brother it was one of my mother's friends kids. At the age of 12, I started babysitting for my neighbor while he played in a band.

In today's world there is NO excuse for getting pregnant at an early age like me, because there is FREE help out there for our teens, without us parents knowing about it. In today's times an education is very important for a good job. My kids knew how old I was because I never hid it from them. But I always told them that if they ever became parents while they were in school they were going to finish school, not like me, where I quit school. That is what I really wish I did was graduate with my classmates. I am really glad I got my diploma later in life, because it really is important to say, YES I got my DIPLOMA.