Girl-Mom founder and publisher Bee Lavender talks about the experience of becoming a teen parent, and why she started this site: One cold, clear night in the spring of 1990 I let myself into my parents' home, quietly walked through the house without turning on the lights, and taped a note to the bathroom window. It read: "I'm pregnant. I'm sorry." Click for more....
We do not encourage childless teens to follow our path; face it, it's a tough path. But we encourage all teens who wake to the call of "mama!" before dawn breaks to do all that they can to empower themselves and nurture their children. We encourage those who, through their own choices and free will, have evolved from Girl to Girl-Mom.
The girls who frequent this site are intelligent, strong, compassionate, socially aware, politically active, and eternally nurturing.
Together, we will change the face of "teen parenthood."
- Today I took him to the park, and I'm still energetic and agile enough to run around and climb the monkey bars with him!
- I know I won't hurt myself like my mom used to if I roll around on the floor having a tickle fight!
-I'll still be super young when they are adults
- When they're teenagers I'll just be out of my 20's and I'll still remember what it's like to be young and confused. My mom never did.
- I have the energy now to be rough and tumble.
by Rebecca Trotzky Sirr
Never in my life had I imagined that I could find a moment like this liberating. But then, most of my life, I never imagined a moment like this would happen.
I am sitting on my bed, my legs crossed in front of me, my chin on my hands, staring intently at my computer screen.
Bright, colorful pictures cover the screen. The options seem quite endless. I am diligently doing my research, I always do my research. Research gives me security. It makes me feel comfortable to know everything I can before I take certain steps, especially one as monumental as this one.
The Girlmom community is organizing to present a workshop at the US Social Forum along with SisterSong about reproductive health justice for young parents.
Its a touchy subject. Mama's all over the world who may feel that they have lost a sense of love with their children but are to afraid to express themselves because of fears that society will condem us as wrong. How could you not love your baby they said to me.....How could you not want to be his mom anymore. you have spent nearly 3 years with this child and just not after he has known u for his whole life are u saying that you cant do this.
No, I’m not talking about “skinny jeans,” those pants barely any woman looks good in. I’m talking about those pants you have. I don’t know if we all have them, but I bet most of us do. They sit in your closet or in your drawer because “one day” you’ll fit into them again. I had five pairs. One day, I was going to fit into them again. Then I’d be pretty. Then I’d be happy with my body.
Many of you have probably seen or heard about Gaps PRODUCT(RED) campaign to raise money for women and children living with HIV/AIDS in Africa. (dont even get me started on how hypocritical this is on sooo many levels) How about those fancy commercials with killer special effects about "the know spreading". To many people HIV/AIDS is merely an ad campaign...to many people its merely a condom advertisment. To many people AIDS is still a gay disease....and if not that its DEFINATELY not something someone believes will ever happen to them.
When is the world going to wake up?
A discussion on another board really got me thinking about this.
In today's day and age where racism is only acceptable if it's subtle or hidden, everyone insists that there is no blatant racism any more, people have moved on from that.
But there is an instance in which blatant and outright racism is totally acceptable, and that is if it is against the indigenous people of this land.
