Public Assistance for Young Parents: Friend or Enemy?
By the time I got to college, I didn’t have child support or help from my parents. I realized I needed additional support so I applied for public assistance for young parents. I needed support like food stamps now called Supplemental Nutrition…
Support For Pregnant Teens and Young Parents
I understand that support for pregnant teens and young parents can be hard to come by. In my own life, I had the support of my mother who picked me up from school and took me for my doctor’s appointments. She took time off work to make sure…
How to cope with a teen pregnancy
At this point in my story, I was pregnant at 15 years by a boy I didn’t know and whom I hadn’t consented to have sex with.
My secret was out, and the guilt and shame were real. Coping with a teen pregnancy had never featured on my list…
Surviving Teen Pregnancy Without Losing Your Mind
Surviving teen pregnancy had never featured in any of my plans for my life.
In fact, I looked down on other girls who got pregnant. I thought they deserved what happened to them because of their promiscuous and fast ways. Yet here I was in…
How to Avoid Teen Pregnancy
Because I was not sexually active, neither I or my parents probably thought they needed to talk to me about how to avoid teen pregnancy.
If you had told me I would join the teen pregnancy statistics at age 15. I would have called you a liar.…
Becoming a Part of History- The Miriam DeCosta Sugarman Marker Dedication Ceremony
There are not many moments when you're invited to be a part of history.
Last Monday, I had the honor of speaking on the program for a major moment in University of Memphis history.
As part of the University of Memphis' initiatives to Eradicate…
How Teens Can Develop an Attitude for Success
When I was younger, I didn’t have the best of attitudes.
I was stubborn, often disrespectful, and focused on having my way. In other words, I didn’t have an attitude for success. But that all changed when I started to understand that my…
Practice self-love to grow in self-realization
Without a doubt, the teenage years are tough from an angle of self-love and self-realization.
For some, it’s even more challenging because not only are they struggling with discovering who they are, they are also trying to learn how to love…
Why you need positive people around you
If you aren’t spending time with positive people who uplift you and motivate you towards achieving your goals, you are doing yourself a big disservice. As a 15-year old, I was careful to make friends who have similar priorities to mine.
That…