The Young Mother

I got pregnant at eighteen and I had my son at nineteen (almost twenty) so I guess I was stroked by motherhood a bit too early. This widened my understanding of the world. Being a young mother isn't the worse thing, being young while raising a child is actually pretty awesome. I can go to the play ground with Seamus and do things with him, like chase him around on the jungle gym or play actually physical games that involve moving. I remember my mom never did this, she would take me to the playground and then disappear! Or the fact that I can remember childhood pretty well, oh yes all of those little tricks I used to play on my own mother like hiding food in weird places or eating dog food, pretending to choke on foods I hated, pooping and not wiping, not brushing my hair and saying that I did, use her make up, lotions, soaps and things of the sort. But the most amazing part of being young and having a son is the fact that I get to enjoy childhood all over again; We eat a whole box of cookies while watching Hey Arnold! or we go together to the kiddies movies. We go to cool awesome places like Please Touch Museum or the Franklin Institute or the zoo, circus, pony rides... We watch movies until late on weekend nights, play hide and seek at Ikea, play golf at the laundromat or enjoy a good match on the arcades. I enjoy this, and I don't see any shame on it, yes other older mothers do judge me, so do other people who don't know me, but that's them, and this is me, and I decided to keep my son, and I will not miss my chance of being the "best mom ever" because our modern society decided to make it a sin to be young and a mother.