Parents don't come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It's about our own growing as much as it is about our children's growing and that kind of growing happens little by little.
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.
Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready.
Just because you become a parent doesn't mean you grew up.
Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.
I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.
Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.
My parents were in high school when I was born. My mom was 16, my dad was 17. They were kids, at the very beginning of coming into their own and finding themselves.
