Life has changed for me in so many ways when making this decision. As a single mother I thought I would never have made it this far. Being the only daughter of my mother my two brothers graduated from college with honour and has good jobs. I had a young baby and did not complete my high school education. I see my friends getting good jobs and pursuing their education and I was a sixteen year old mother with nothing to look forward to.
Becoming a First Time Parent Jennifer Berdine ENG121: English Composition 1 Regina Bradley 04/20/2015 BECOMING A FIRST TIME PARENT When you become a parent for the first time many emotions are running though your head: happiness, joy, nervous, scared. It can be overwhelming at first because there is a lot of unknown and all you want is a healthy baby. Even when it is a planned pregnancy nothing can prepare you for the first time you see a positive test result. Having a baby has change my life in many ways, it teaches you responsibilities and priorities, it motivates you to have the best possible life for your baby. Being a first time parent you put their needs in front of yours and would do absolutely anything to provide for them you also need to have a balance between work, school, and family.
Then we went back home and my stomach was still aching. My stomach ached so much that I couldn’t even go to school for a week. After staying at home for one week my parents took me to another doctor because they had a feeling that my stomach ache wasn’t just a stomach ache. After the doctor examined my body, the doctor said that I suffered from appendicitis. The next morning at seven o’clock I had an appendectomy at Bungsu Hospital.
She beats herself up every day, and asks herself, why she didn’t go back. She knows that if she went back she would have a great life and a good job where she could support herself. She always relies on my step father for money. Unfortunately, I do not want to turn out like my mom. My step father didn’t get to go to college either because he took me and my mother in at a young age, so he
The Average Life of a Typical Mother “Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own” (Kelly xiii). I never fully understood the troubles of motherhood until I came one myself. Long nights, early mornings and sporadic tantrums have completely enveloped every aspect of my life. Married at 19 and married with child at 21 had definitely given me the strong push into the real world.
She was happy. I was a disappointment to my mother as far as reading went. It wasn’t that I couldn’t read it was that I never wanted to, and compared to my sibling who read every day, I was a letdown. It might not have been such a dilemma to any other parent, but to my mom who’d taught and encouraged kids to read for many years, it certainly was. It wasn’t until I started first grade that I finally started to appreciate some of my mother’s hard work.
My job was the second best thing in my life. Me being a single mom, it was my only means of supporting my family who meant everything to me. I have worked at the same job for twenty-four years and now it was gone. I had felt like a failure and I failed my family. It really hurt me.
I can remember growing up in a single-parent home. It was just my mom and I, nevertheless, over all my childhood years was good. My mom worked and she always made sure I had everything I needed and some of the things I wanted. Growing up with just my mom has made me more mature because I had to do some things for myself. For example, when I got home from school, mom would still be at work, therefore, I was in control of when to do my homework.
While many single mothers worry too much or regret decisions during their children childhood they are satisfied with the result and the out come of there children by the actions their children make after they grown out of their childhood In “I stand here ironing” a mother depicts her first child to have a bad early childhood by making the wrong decision not by choice but simply what got handed to them in a urban world. “She was a miracle to me but when she was eight months old I had to leave her daytimes with the woman downstairs to whom she was no miracle at all, for I worked or looked for work and for Emily’s father who “could no longer endure sharing want with us.”” Narrator did not want leave her child with the downstairs neighbor, but to provide the little she could to her child she made scarifies due to been a one parent family. She did all she could even with the father figure leaving to irrelevant discussion on his part. When she sees the development of her child thru the years she gets warmth never felt. “Now suddenly she was Somebody, and as imprisoned in her difference as she had in anonymity.” In the narrators point of view her child was an outcast, a nobody, but when she got the call from her daughter it seem the sun finally started to shine in her daughter path, she was free.
In the moment that he was born I went from being a girl to being a woman, a mother whose sole purpose was to protect and provide for the life that was now dependent on me. My life before P was that of a young woman who was aimlessly stumbling through life, I had little contact with most of my family, I had decided against pursuing higher education in favour of working a minimum-wage job and I spent all of my spare time sleeping or partying. I didn’t have any consideration for my future or my health; I was all about living in the moment and having fun. Then I fell pregnant and even though I knew that having a baby would change my life I had no idea just how much of a difference becoming a mother would make. When P was born I decided then and there that I would make something of myself, I wanted to make my son proud of me.