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Summer shares her tips for teenage parents.
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7 Tips for Teenage Parents

One of my tips for teenage parents is to understand that once you become a parent, there is no going back. I had my child when I was 15-years old. The entire ordeal was painful and scary, partly because I had to have a C-section. The other…
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I Ran Away From Home, But It Didn’t Fix My Problems

Teens run away from home because of family problems. I got into an argument with my stepfather and did the same. At the time, I was about five months pregnant. I thought physically leaving would solve my problems, but it didn’t. Instead, running…
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The Power of Family and Teen Friendships

My friends came through for me in a big way during my pregnancy. I experienced firsthand the power of teen friendships at work. My 15-year-old friends came together with the little they had to throw me a baby shower. That big gesture touched…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Summer shares a lesson learned from her memoir on not knowing as much as she thought about life, sex and pregnancy.
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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.…
Summer shares a lesson learned from her memoir on developing an attitude for success.
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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…