What's life like as a teen parent? I'm 35 and have a 16 and 14 year old. They're pretty good

kids overall. I mean, they're rotten teenagers, but that's to be expected. It's pretty cool that I can

still do stuff with them and not seem so out of place. We are, however, the youngest parents at our

school, which is kind of odd for both us and the kids sometimes.

So my mum had me when she was 18. I'm now 18 and she's 36. She looks like she hasn't aged in 10 years and

everyone thinks we're sisters. My dad, on the other hand, looks like he could either be my dad or

when we go out drinking, possibly my sugar daddy?

We go to bars sometimes, and I never get carded.

I find it very easy to empathise with the things my kid is going through, because high school wasn't that long ago for me, and I can remember very clearly what it was like.

Also, having seen me struggle through my 20s as a young

mum has definitely set her on a different path. She's a woman's shelter volunteer, an honour roll

student, and has plans to go into law enforcement. My mum is 35 and I'm 19. She's definitely more

in the know than my friend's parents when it comes to pop culture, and sometimes I feel like she's more wilder than I am, because she never had a chance to get it out of her system when she was my age.

Based on what she's told me, having a child saved her future, and we're really close.

Move Ahead a Generation. When I graduated high school, my parents were in their early to mid-30s.

My dad was 16 when I was born. To me, a stupid 17-year-old, I thought my parents were old people.

I was 34 when my first child was born. I can't wrap my head around that stuff.

It's definitely fun to go somewhere with your kid once they've grown up and watch

as our weird society thinks you're a couple. I know a very attractive young woman in her early

20s. I mean, she's so pretty that she turns heads wherever she goes. She's even done some

modeling work. Anyway, she's told me that whenever she's out in public with her dad, they get

dirty looks from middle-aged women who think that she's her dad's trophy girlfriend and not his daughter.

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