Teens Take Fake Babies Home For A Parenting Project, Instructor Shares Their Desperate Texts
Students at Chippewa Secondary School are learning how difficult parenting is the hard way and people are loving every bit of their misery. As part of their annual class project, the teens got fake babies to take care of. They took the little bundles of joy for just one weekend. However, that was enough for the hands-on experimental learning to become quite the hassle. Looking for answers or simply a shoulder to cry on, the students turned to their instructor. The texts they sent perfectly sum up the desperation, agony, and resentment they spiraled into during those couple of days.
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“Our students are in a grade 11 class called Raising Healthy Children,” the teacher of the class, Andrea Lefebvre told Bored Panda. “The students bring home one of the Real Care babies for the weekend to apply their learning for the caring for a newborn unit.
Lefebvre said that the babies cry, need to be held, rocked, burped, diapers need to be changed and they need to be fed. The dolls also record rough handling, abuse and temperatures. So I guess the only thing they’re missing is a never-wiping snot and they’d be the real deal.
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“Our school board (Near North District School Board) owns the babies and each school accesses them through the year for their classes,” Lefebvre added. “Lots of use!”
“Students look forward to this unit when they register for the course. We really love this unit. Great discussions and real-life learning.”
Parenting Education attempts to prepare the students for the adventure of parenthood. The content of these efforts varies from one school to another, ranging from behavior-management approaches to relationship enhancement approaches. What the programs have in common, though, is the conviction that parents play a vital role in the development of children and that they can be more effective through training and education.
“Through the chaos that is child-rearing, we can reach out to find support, find humor in the crazy situations and with love and guidance, know that our kids will be ok!” Lefebvre concluded.
P.S. “Lucy survived and the data showed the students did very well.”
People were incredibly amused by the texts
I'm an adult and work in a youth project. We had these reality babies and I took one home for test purposes before giving them to teens. Deliberately set it on the toughest option. Lasted 3 hours before I disabled it by removing the battery/recording pack. I love children, but I'm not mummy material!
I agree, I can babysit my nieces and nephews and other people's children for a few hours at a stretch and I love buying presents for kids but I most certainly cannot do full time mothering, that's a fact that's been settled a long time ago and that's ALRIGHT. Honestly, I can barely remember to feed myself most days. Hats off to all the mothers out there!!!
Load More Replies...At no point in my life did I ever want to have children and I am glad I did not. Everyone should be given the opportunity to experience what it is like and whether they really want children.
I was the oldest girl (second oldest sibling) in a large family and I got pressed into service as a babysitter whenever my parents needed me. (Not my older brother, of course - heaven forbid he should do "women's work".) I definitely think that this is why I decided early on to not have children - I felt I'd already done a lot of that.
Load More Replies...I wish babies came with a shut off switch, Hell I would even be happy for some volume control hahaha (jk).
Nah, Mine was the perfect baby. Asperger's and all he was and is an amazing kid. He turns 12 today. His father one the other hand, can I have an off switch for him?
Load More Replies...food for thought: we had very informative sex education at my school. Very factual: how reproduction works, how conception occurs, dispelling all the false ideas (eg "can't fall pregnant the first time you have sex / in a pool / if the girl is on top" etc). Very practical education : this is a condom, here is how they work & why, you can get them for free from this free clinic. We had condom vending machines in both the girls & boys toilets, so they could be bought, very cheaply, & privately. End result: NO teen pregnancies in my school of 1500 students, with one exception: a 16 year old girl, with a long term boyfriend, who transferred in to our school already pregnant. She and the dad stayed together, and are still happily together with more kids. So, yeah, out of a testing pool of over 2,700 teens (throughout my 5 years there) , I can attest to the fact that effective, factual, sex education, does work in preventing unwanted pregnancy. And no, we never did the "fake baby".
You obviously never needed it there. It's widely used in city schools, where the kids are brought up on 'have a baby and you can have your OWN welfare case. That's your money; nobody can touch it.' This conviently doesn't cover caring for the child (which the doll does) or the mechanics of making that small amount stretch for housing, clothes, diapers (!), and things like that. I made a set of budgets for a teaching friend, on just what they'd get. After those got passed around, along with actual adds for food, rentals, clothing, etc, a lot of teens were heard to say, "THAT'S all you get? I'm *never* getting pregnant!"
Load More Replies...I did this in high school, with the flour baby. The other kids in my class kidnapped my flour baby. They returned it about an hour later after stabbing it numerous times with scissors and knives and pencils. Somehow I was held responsible for the kidnapping and killing of my flour child...
Oh my god... the exact same thing happened to me and my flour baby in school!! Only they made us do it in elementary school, so none of us were yet mature enough to take it seriously
Load More Replies...Story time: we did this at high school in year 9 (age 14-15) we had to have the at school and at home for a week :(, I got very sick with tonsillitis and had to go to the hospital but because I'm a OCD perfectionist I didn't want to give up so I sit up at the hospital for 7 hours with a crying baby, getting many weird looks and had a lady actually come up to me and tell me I'm a bit young to have a child, before I showed her that it was a doll, the day after I had finished my week I passed out from exhaustion and ended up back in hospital - since then each year the have had to report back to their teacher each day on how much sleep they got and how they were copping (health check) it was a hellish week for everyone in the class and afterwards I would wake up thinking I could her it crying before I remembered it was back a school.
Nothing wrong with being a perfectionist. Also, who the f**k walks up to a child and tells them they're too young to have a child? Thanks, tips! What exactly are they hoping to accomplish with that comment?
Load More Replies...Anyone else get an uncooked egg to carry around all day? I dropped mine. I don't have kids.
I did. These fake babies are great idea. More understanding, the better.
Load More Replies...aaaand has anyone actually done any follow up science to see if this does reduce the amount of teen pregnancy?
Yes. Having the 'fake baby' experience actually slightly raises the chance of teen pregnancy.
Load More Replies...My 16 y.o. daughter literally just did this a few weeks ago. The baby wasn't too bad, bet she has experienced real babies and found this one to be nothing like it. It did fuss a lot and she did realize the frustration and lack of sleep real ones can give you. But she did really good! I used to other bracket to help her out when she was starting to get frustrated.
I'm really really old. We took home Eggs that we drew a face on and bundled up
We didn't get even that much. I date from a period when girls took home ec, learned to cook and sew. Boys went to shop. No exceptions.
Load More Replies...Since parenting is likely to happen in a majority of lives, I've always thought it should be part of a lifeskills course in high school. Way more pertinent to life than gym class. Spend time on nutrition, basic auto and home maintenance, budgeting and what to expect in household expenses and bills, basic child developement and rearing, honest and informative sex ed. You know, things they'll continually use in life. It would alos greatly contribute to breaking cycles of abuse.
Agreed. People forget that the purpose of schooling is to prepare the new generation to be productive members of society. Instead it's "Regurgitate which king lost which battle in 1367 in Belgium". Life skills are very important, but ignored. I remember when I was in high school (early 90's) teachers would say "computers are the future and you need to know them" yet there was literally zero computer skills taught at school. WTF?! Thanks.
Load More Replies...Funny story... my nephew did this project for his school and he asked my husband (who is a fantastic dad) to babysit while he attended swim practice. My husband was on his way home with the mechanical baby and our own daughter in the car seat. While on the way home the mechanical baby started crying which upset our child who also started crying. My husband became so worried that he pulled over on the expressway thinking that if he could console the mechanical baby that it would also calm ours as well. After trying for several minutes to calm the children, the police pulled up behind him to see what was going on. By this time my husband was frustrated and at his wits end so he and the police decided that the only way to manage his sanity was to put one of the babies in the trunk. Since it would be a crime to put a human baby in the trunk, they placed the mechanical one in there, whew!! So thats how they resolved the situation. Amazingly my nephew did not fail the project.
Among failed education attempts this fake baby parenting scheme really takes the cake. Instead of giving teens good sex ed and access to birth control, these dolls are supposed to scare them into not having sex. Idiotic!
In Australia we have good sex education, access to birth control AND also do the fake baby. It isn’t necessarily just to scare teens but also a way to learn how to care for a baby for when they are older.
Load More Replies...I just hope these participants don´t babysit in real life to get some extra money!
Being a mom is so different then taking care of a doll. You love that child. It changes most women and men so much.
WOW! All we got to do was carry around a 5lb bag of sugar. I would have loved this...and then gone and gotten a hysterectomy Monday morning. 🤪
Every teen should be required to babysit for a hyperactive child under the age of four. That's the fastest way to make sure your kids either abstain from sex or use proper protection when having sex to avoid these unexpected "miracles." It should also be paired with a personal finances class to show you the difference in your income and where it goes in regards to raising a family. Don't worry about the fact that having a kid makes it nearly impossible to party with your friends anymore because you won't be able to afford going out anyway...DOH!
I fake care about this. I fake care alot. Mostly to get what I want.
Well, I would just let him cry....like I did mine! Tho, he cried himself to sleep so I was lucky. I am talking about a real baby...I went nuts...BUT it went fast and thank you God I had my mom and dad.....and they both love him and now he is 39...and still driving me nuts LOL
Same boat! I cried more than my baby that first year! And many times over the years I would wish I could "put him back".... now he is 45 and still making me nuts and cry from time to time. But I would do it all again in a heartbeat.
Load More Replies...My 14 year old daughter is trying to get pregnant...and I want her to have the experience of one of these...(that cries constantly...my preferences) to denture the idea from her head....HOW DO I GET HER ONE TO BRING HOME???? ASAP!! CONCERNED MOM FROM JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA...SHERRY OATES
In the 1970s, our teacher recommended our parents sign us up to volunteer at either the junior college campus daycare or HeadStart. I did both, because I thought I wanted to go into Early Childhood Education. Many of my classmates who thought they wanted to become young parents -- or who were sexually active and not using birth control or contraception -- had their eyes opened wide by meeting teen parents whose options had been narrowed and re-shaped by introducing a child.
What? I am under the impression that sex-education is not all up to standards in the USA (please correct me if I am wrong) but you have robot babies to practice on, in high school??? Sorry, but this seems seriously f****d up to me.
Do the school authorities actually believe that an annoying robot baby is anything like caring for the child you have given birth to? This seems wrong in so many ways, on so many levels.
Load More Replies...i'm so glad we didn't have these when i was in school...i just had to carry around an egg!
we didn't have these in my hs-we were given raw eggs and had to just make sure they weren't broken during the week-made "beds" for them and drew faces..this was in the dark ages of '89, tho
I work with teenage parents as a legal guardian of the state for their babies sometimes- there are amazing strong and capable ones but sadly also the ones who wanted a baby "so someone would love ME". You know, children who should have gotten love and protection but now they look for love by having their own family They are so flabbergasted and overwhelmed that a baby won't show them love and affection, being an adorable little cuddle-thing but how demanding/stressful it is for the parent. I wish every school would participate in this projects! I have no doubt that it really would make a difference.
I had one for one of my classes but the body was a bag of flour and the head/limbs were pantyhose filled with cotton and we had to carry them around and all our other teachers had to sign a paper saying we took care of our baby at the end of each class period for a week I remember what i named mine too, Dallon Quinn(my last name)
Yes, this is a good thing for kids to see. Also, as a mom I've learned that the deep love I have for my children gives me strength. I've also learned you definitely can't do it alone. It takes a village to raise a child - if only to keep mom sane lol. If you want kids but are scared by the doll experience maybe try spending some time volunteering in the neonatal unit at the hospital or helping a new mom. Real life babies are wonderful.
I had a brother born when I was 10. I learned quickly (though I didn't mind) about dirty diapers and middle of the night feedings. I suspect that a lot of us got a lesson in babies from that - much younger siblings! Back then it was just a lot of fun almost having my own baby. Back then a woman having caesarian had to stay in bed for 3 weeks. That made me a baby caregiver right away. I loved it.
This is very interesting, this should be mandatory in schools, however, i think even as early as grade ten, if girls don't use birth control, the experience of a baby for a full weekend, would be the best, birth control ever,unwanted babies are in every city !!!
My sister and I were at Barnes & Noble. Her baby kept crying and couldn't get it to stop. She was in the bathroom but it kept crying. We were asked to leave the store.
I think that every boy should be forced to take this class AND a girl should be chosen to be the co-parent. They need to force them to share custody since most men like to run off from their responsibilities and women who do have the dad around can't get him to share equal responsibilities.
Surely not every kid in high school has to take one of these things? What if those kids have already decided they never want kids? What if you have anti-natalist students who believe that creating life is wrong - I'd say an event like this would probably lead to suicide. It might be OK for kids who say they do want some children in the future, but it'd be pointless for others.
I wish this was mandatory in all public and private schools, and that they brought back home-ec and workshop too, but that’s besides the point. I had my daughter at 22 and I was too young to have her! The only reason I survived was because my mother lived with us for 6 weeks and she was an RN. I was not emotionally prepared to become a mother at that age, and I pushed my kids to wait until their 30’s to get married and have children IF they wanted them. My daughter is 36 now and no children. All teens should have this program requirement.
Always wanted to do this, but I was homeschooled.However, I had a lot of pets growing up and at it's core, it's the same concept. A living being that needs you it's whole life. (Or most of it, for kids that grow up and move away.) But that's where the similarities end. Pets don't have weddings, college, ect. And the love you have for a child is far, far more and different than any pet, duh. Now I'm in my 30s and can't/don't want kids. ( Fulltime caregiver who never gets asked out on dates. If I dreamed of kids, I'd be disappointed.) I play sims And have pets, that's enough.
I find it interesting that these kids are in the 11th. grade and write like a third or fourth grader. I was 24 when I got married, had and raised four intelligent kids who are raising the next generation of our family's hell raisers.. Eleven of them aged twenty two down to age three. Seven girls and four boys. All of them capable of helping the next one down the line....
s**t...im gonna have to be doing this in freshman years...aka next year
Or you know we could outlaw abstinence only education, educated our teens with actual sex education, make birth control accessible and affordable if not free. You know what most first world nations figured out would actually lower teen pregnancies.
Load More Replies...no, they're teaching them how HARD it is to have babies (at their age) , so they'll be carefull.
Load More Replies...I'm an adult and work in a youth project. We had these reality babies and I took one home for test purposes before giving them to teens. Deliberately set it on the toughest option. Lasted 3 hours before I disabled it by removing the battery/recording pack. I love children, but I'm not mummy material!
I agree, I can babysit my nieces and nephews and other people's children for a few hours at a stretch and I love buying presents for kids but I most certainly cannot do full time mothering, that's a fact that's been settled a long time ago and that's ALRIGHT. Honestly, I can barely remember to feed myself most days. Hats off to all the mothers out there!!!
Load More Replies...At no point in my life did I ever want to have children and I am glad I did not. Everyone should be given the opportunity to experience what it is like and whether they really want children.
I was the oldest girl (second oldest sibling) in a large family and I got pressed into service as a babysitter whenever my parents needed me. (Not my older brother, of course - heaven forbid he should do "women's work".) I definitely think that this is why I decided early on to not have children - I felt I'd already done a lot of that.
Load More Replies...I wish babies came with a shut off switch, Hell I would even be happy for some volume control hahaha (jk).
Nah, Mine was the perfect baby. Asperger's and all he was and is an amazing kid. He turns 12 today. His father one the other hand, can I have an off switch for him?
Load More Replies...food for thought: we had very informative sex education at my school. Very factual: how reproduction works, how conception occurs, dispelling all the false ideas (eg "can't fall pregnant the first time you have sex / in a pool / if the girl is on top" etc). Very practical education : this is a condom, here is how they work & why, you can get them for free from this free clinic. We had condom vending machines in both the girls & boys toilets, so they could be bought, very cheaply, & privately. End result: NO teen pregnancies in my school of 1500 students, with one exception: a 16 year old girl, with a long term boyfriend, who transferred in to our school already pregnant. She and the dad stayed together, and are still happily together with more kids. So, yeah, out of a testing pool of over 2,700 teens (throughout my 5 years there) , I can attest to the fact that effective, factual, sex education, does work in preventing unwanted pregnancy. And no, we never did the "fake baby".
You obviously never needed it there. It's widely used in city schools, where the kids are brought up on 'have a baby and you can have your OWN welfare case. That's your money; nobody can touch it.' This conviently doesn't cover caring for the child (which the doll does) or the mechanics of making that small amount stretch for housing, clothes, diapers (!), and things like that. I made a set of budgets for a teaching friend, on just what they'd get. After those got passed around, along with actual adds for food, rentals, clothing, etc, a lot of teens were heard to say, "THAT'S all you get? I'm *never* getting pregnant!"
Load More Replies...I did this in high school, with the flour baby. The other kids in my class kidnapped my flour baby. They returned it about an hour later after stabbing it numerous times with scissors and knives and pencils. Somehow I was held responsible for the kidnapping and killing of my flour child...
Oh my god... the exact same thing happened to me and my flour baby in school!! Only they made us do it in elementary school, so none of us were yet mature enough to take it seriously
Load More Replies...Story time: we did this at high school in year 9 (age 14-15) we had to have the at school and at home for a week :(, I got very sick with tonsillitis and had to go to the hospital but because I'm a OCD perfectionist I didn't want to give up so I sit up at the hospital for 7 hours with a crying baby, getting many weird looks and had a lady actually come up to me and tell me I'm a bit young to have a child, before I showed her that it was a doll, the day after I had finished my week I passed out from exhaustion and ended up back in hospital - since then each year the have had to report back to their teacher each day on how much sleep they got and how they were copping (health check) it was a hellish week for everyone in the class and afterwards I would wake up thinking I could her it crying before I remembered it was back a school.
Nothing wrong with being a perfectionist. Also, who the f**k walks up to a child and tells them they're too young to have a child? Thanks, tips! What exactly are they hoping to accomplish with that comment?
Load More Replies...Anyone else get an uncooked egg to carry around all day? I dropped mine. I don't have kids.
I did. These fake babies are great idea. More understanding, the better.
Load More Replies...aaaand has anyone actually done any follow up science to see if this does reduce the amount of teen pregnancy?
Yes. Having the 'fake baby' experience actually slightly raises the chance of teen pregnancy.
Load More Replies...My 16 y.o. daughter literally just did this a few weeks ago. The baby wasn't too bad, bet she has experienced real babies and found this one to be nothing like it. It did fuss a lot and she did realize the frustration and lack of sleep real ones can give you. But she did really good! I used to other bracket to help her out when she was starting to get frustrated.
I'm really really old. We took home Eggs that we drew a face on and bundled up
We didn't get even that much. I date from a period when girls took home ec, learned to cook and sew. Boys went to shop. No exceptions.
Load More Replies...Since parenting is likely to happen in a majority of lives, I've always thought it should be part of a lifeskills course in high school. Way more pertinent to life than gym class. Spend time on nutrition, basic auto and home maintenance, budgeting and what to expect in household expenses and bills, basic child developement and rearing, honest and informative sex ed. You know, things they'll continually use in life. It would alos greatly contribute to breaking cycles of abuse.
Agreed. People forget that the purpose of schooling is to prepare the new generation to be productive members of society. Instead it's "Regurgitate which king lost which battle in 1367 in Belgium". Life skills are very important, but ignored. I remember when I was in high school (early 90's) teachers would say "computers are the future and you need to know them" yet there was literally zero computer skills taught at school. WTF?! Thanks.
Load More Replies...Funny story... my nephew did this project for his school and he asked my husband (who is a fantastic dad) to babysit while he attended swim practice. My husband was on his way home with the mechanical baby and our own daughter in the car seat. While on the way home the mechanical baby started crying which upset our child who also started crying. My husband became so worried that he pulled over on the expressway thinking that if he could console the mechanical baby that it would also calm ours as well. After trying for several minutes to calm the children, the police pulled up behind him to see what was going on. By this time my husband was frustrated and at his wits end so he and the police decided that the only way to manage his sanity was to put one of the babies in the trunk. Since it would be a crime to put a human baby in the trunk, they placed the mechanical one in there, whew!! So thats how they resolved the situation. Amazingly my nephew did not fail the project.
Among failed education attempts this fake baby parenting scheme really takes the cake. Instead of giving teens good sex ed and access to birth control, these dolls are supposed to scare them into not having sex. Idiotic!
In Australia we have good sex education, access to birth control AND also do the fake baby. It isn’t necessarily just to scare teens but also a way to learn how to care for a baby for when they are older.
Load More Replies...I just hope these participants don´t babysit in real life to get some extra money!
Being a mom is so different then taking care of a doll. You love that child. It changes most women and men so much.
WOW! All we got to do was carry around a 5lb bag of sugar. I would have loved this...and then gone and gotten a hysterectomy Monday morning. 🤪
Every teen should be required to babysit for a hyperactive child under the age of four. That's the fastest way to make sure your kids either abstain from sex or use proper protection when having sex to avoid these unexpected "miracles." It should also be paired with a personal finances class to show you the difference in your income and where it goes in regards to raising a family. Don't worry about the fact that having a kid makes it nearly impossible to party with your friends anymore because you won't be able to afford going out anyway...DOH!
I fake care about this. I fake care alot. Mostly to get what I want.
Well, I would just let him cry....like I did mine! Tho, he cried himself to sleep so I was lucky. I am talking about a real baby...I went nuts...BUT it went fast and thank you God I had my mom and dad.....and they both love him and now he is 39...and still driving me nuts LOL
Same boat! I cried more than my baby that first year! And many times over the years I would wish I could "put him back".... now he is 45 and still making me nuts and cry from time to time. But I would do it all again in a heartbeat.
Load More Replies...My 14 year old daughter is trying to get pregnant...and I want her to have the experience of one of these...(that cries constantly...my preferences) to denture the idea from her head....HOW DO I GET HER ONE TO BRING HOME???? ASAP!! CONCERNED MOM FROM JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA...SHERRY OATES
In the 1970s, our teacher recommended our parents sign us up to volunteer at either the junior college campus daycare or HeadStart. I did both, because I thought I wanted to go into Early Childhood Education. Many of my classmates who thought they wanted to become young parents -- or who were sexually active and not using birth control or contraception -- had their eyes opened wide by meeting teen parents whose options had been narrowed and re-shaped by introducing a child.
What? I am under the impression that sex-education is not all up to standards in the USA (please correct me if I am wrong) but you have robot babies to practice on, in high school??? Sorry, but this seems seriously f****d up to me.
Do the school authorities actually believe that an annoying robot baby is anything like caring for the child you have given birth to? This seems wrong in so many ways, on so many levels.
Load More Replies...i'm so glad we didn't have these when i was in school...i just had to carry around an egg!
we didn't have these in my hs-we were given raw eggs and had to just make sure they weren't broken during the week-made "beds" for them and drew faces..this was in the dark ages of '89, tho
I work with teenage parents as a legal guardian of the state for their babies sometimes- there are amazing strong and capable ones but sadly also the ones who wanted a baby "so someone would love ME". You know, children who should have gotten love and protection but now they look for love by having their own family They are so flabbergasted and overwhelmed that a baby won't show them love and affection, being an adorable little cuddle-thing but how demanding/stressful it is for the parent. I wish every school would participate in this projects! I have no doubt that it really would make a difference.
I had one for one of my classes but the body was a bag of flour and the head/limbs were pantyhose filled with cotton and we had to carry them around and all our other teachers had to sign a paper saying we took care of our baby at the end of each class period for a week I remember what i named mine too, Dallon Quinn(my last name)
Yes, this is a good thing for kids to see. Also, as a mom I've learned that the deep love I have for my children gives me strength. I've also learned you definitely can't do it alone. It takes a village to raise a child - if only to keep mom sane lol. If you want kids but are scared by the doll experience maybe try spending some time volunteering in the neonatal unit at the hospital or helping a new mom. Real life babies are wonderful.
I had a brother born when I was 10. I learned quickly (though I didn't mind) about dirty diapers and middle of the night feedings. I suspect that a lot of us got a lesson in babies from that - much younger siblings! Back then it was just a lot of fun almost having my own baby. Back then a woman having caesarian had to stay in bed for 3 weeks. That made me a baby caregiver right away. I loved it.
This is very interesting, this should be mandatory in schools, however, i think even as early as grade ten, if girls don't use birth control, the experience of a baby for a full weekend, would be the best, birth control ever,unwanted babies are in every city !!!
My sister and I were at Barnes & Noble. Her baby kept crying and couldn't get it to stop. She was in the bathroom but it kept crying. We were asked to leave the store.
I think that every boy should be forced to take this class AND a girl should be chosen to be the co-parent. They need to force them to share custody since most men like to run off from their responsibilities and women who do have the dad around can't get him to share equal responsibilities.
Surely not every kid in high school has to take one of these things? What if those kids have already decided they never want kids? What if you have anti-natalist students who believe that creating life is wrong - I'd say an event like this would probably lead to suicide. It might be OK for kids who say they do want some children in the future, but it'd be pointless for others.
I wish this was mandatory in all public and private schools, and that they brought back home-ec and workshop too, but that’s besides the point. I had my daughter at 22 and I was too young to have her! The only reason I survived was because my mother lived with us for 6 weeks and she was an RN. I was not emotionally prepared to become a mother at that age, and I pushed my kids to wait until their 30’s to get married and have children IF they wanted them. My daughter is 36 now and no children. All teens should have this program requirement.
Always wanted to do this, but I was homeschooled.However, I had a lot of pets growing up and at it's core, it's the same concept. A living being that needs you it's whole life. (Or most of it, for kids that grow up and move away.) But that's where the similarities end. Pets don't have weddings, college, ect. And the love you have for a child is far, far more and different than any pet, duh. Now I'm in my 30s and can't/don't want kids. ( Fulltime caregiver who never gets asked out on dates. If I dreamed of kids, I'd be disappointed.) I play sims And have pets, that's enough.
I find it interesting that these kids are in the 11th. grade and write like a third or fourth grader. I was 24 when I got married, had and raised four intelligent kids who are raising the next generation of our family's hell raisers.. Eleven of them aged twenty two down to age three. Seven girls and four boys. All of them capable of helping the next one down the line....
s**t...im gonna have to be doing this in freshman years...aka next year
Or you know we could outlaw abstinence only education, educated our teens with actual sex education, make birth control accessible and affordable if not free. You know what most first world nations figured out would actually lower teen pregnancies.
Load More Replies...no, they're teaching them how HARD it is to have babies (at their age) , so they'll be carefull.
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