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miss 
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 Posted: 08 June 2007 at 5:06pm |
You know, with someof these comments about you not looking old enough to have an x aged child - maybe we should take them as a complement? after all, i love getting asked for id, not that it has happened since I was 31 
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Posted: 08 June 2007 at 5:20pm |
I must admit, when I was working and had families come in I always assumed that the parents were married. 
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daikini
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Posted: 08 June 2007 at 7:41pm |
 miss wrote:
You know, with someof these comments about you not looking old enough to have an x aged child - maybe we should take them as a complement? |
Yeah, I guess I could take it as a compliment - if it wasn't for the complete look of shock on the person's face!  Often (to me, at least) the comment comes out like they were thinking out loud.
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Posted: 08 June 2007 at 10:01pm |
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one of the girls at work found out im preg and had a huge rant to my boss about what was i going to do im 24 not married and dont own a house!! When i found out i could have thumped her stupid thing is is that i may not own my house but she is preg with her second and taking out a huge morgage her and her hubby definately cant afford on one wage to build a brand new over priced house with no plan to go back to work - ill have the last laugh when im living comfy and she is stressed to hell.
I dont know why people think 18-25 is young to have kids!! My mum was married at 19 and 22 when she had me and that was kinda old for a first kid then oh well good luck to the opinionated people that try it on with me im moody enough as it is hahaha
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Posted: 08 June 2007 at 10:10pm |
wrxchic: They think it's too young because the majority of media has been pushing "YOU HAVE TO HAVE A CAREER, AND YOUR NOT ALLOWED BABIES. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT.!!.!.!!!..!"
I think "lets see now...my folks had me at 20, my wifes parents had her at 20, most everyone's parents I know my age (more or less 26 - give or take) had theirs at 20ish... wheres the hypocrisy come from? I don't get it. It's like they forget that THEY had kids at 20 or something.
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My hubby and I still get the shocked looks and "You're too young" comments from strangers when we're out with our kids. We are both 27 this year but people think we look young.
It is so annoying, and I never have the balls to tell them to bugger off with themselves either! |
Ahahahaah. I'm 26 with 3 kids. most of the comments I get are things like "so you going to stop soon?" "Nope, we're going for 6." "SIX?!?!? SIX?!?!?" if they get past the shock of "SIX!?!?" they usually ask if we're brethren. 
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Posted: 08 June 2007 at 10:12pm |
It would be fun to pretend that it was meant as a compliment 
I was stopped by a 50's-ish man when I was walking in the last two weeks. He had the nerve to tell me that when I'm older I won't be wearing anything nice-looking! He was referring to the kids and I think he was meaning cause I won't have much money but at the time I thought he might have been talking about my would-be size, since I won't have enough time to look after myself... now I'm not sure 
Some people need to mind their own business! 
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Posted: 08 June 2007 at 10:30pm |
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Posted: 08 June 2007 at 10:38pm |
I seem to get people on both ends of the spectrum - I was 23 when I got pg and had turned 24 by the time Erin was born, am 25 now, which I reckon is pretty average for having kids. TBH had I been in the right place with my life, I probably would have started earlier too. But as I said, some people think I am young and get funny looks when I am out and about with Erin, or when some people ask me how old I am and I tell them the response is that they thought I was closer to 30  Which doesn't bother me really, after all, older and wiser eh?
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Posted: 08 June 2007 at 10:39pm |
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Also, a fair few of my friends (I'd say the majority) are older than I am anyway and it makes no difference at all.
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Posted: 09 June 2007 at 12:29pm |
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I cant understand why being a young mum is bad? is it because they think they are bad mums?
My mum was 19 when I was born and I think she did an amazing job with me.....and now tho I had Zaara at 27 she was 47 when she became a grandmum....she is proud of this fact.
I adore and respect all the young mums out there...more so the single young mums. My hats of to you! as far as those people who are sooo rude...well their life was obviously horrid and they cant be ever positive about any thing!! so Ignore their sorry arse!!
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