Well, sometimes people can be ridiculously rude.
When I take Echo to the mall, older women give me dirty looks. I've actually gotten comments like "should've kept your legs closed" and "white trash". Once, a complete stranger actually called me a slut.
Now, I'm not a fan of teen pregnancy. At that age, kids are still developing and learning about the world. I know many teen mothers, and quite a few of them are immature and irresponsible; their babies are raised by the teen mom's parents while they go out and party.
But not all of them.
Although we had known each other for a few years, Mack and I had been together for a whopping 3 months when I got pregnant. But we stepped up, he found a job, and we gave ourselves over to parenthood. My daughter is happy, healthy, and isn't in her stroller with a dirty diaper and bottle of brewski in her hand, so what right does anyone else have to stereotype me?
^^NOT my daughter.
Nobody has any right. It's sad. Mack and I are great parents. I support extended rear-facing car seats, I breastfed for as long as I could, I try to cloth diaper, I make her food when I can, buy only organic food when I can't, talk to her, spend 95% of my time with her, read to her, sing to her, never raise my voice at her, believe in non-physical discipline...
After giving up my teenage years to do the right thing, after being blessed with such a wonderful little family, after beating the odds... Some (excuse my language) complete fucking asshole has to ruin my day? What exactly do these people think they're accomplishing?
Yeah, by trying to point out that I'm a stereotypical ignorant teen mom, you're proving that you're a stereotypical grumpy, judgmental, rude, stick-up-your-arse pretentious old person.
Or, if it's because of my tattoos and facial piercings...
Body Modification Does Not Determine Character.
To prove that, here's a slideshow of my stretch-lobed, tattooed, pierced friends going crazy over little Echo.
Oh, and here's a picture of us. Aren't we cute?
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