Everything is hard about parenting; teaching, discilpining, feeding, clothing, diapering, educating, sleeping, having enough time for anything, you name it. Parenting is the hardest job there is and shouldn't be tacken lightly.

You should live a life before you make a life.

me and boyfriend hav much love between him and i and i feel a baby will bring us onli closer but i belive that i am gona wait til im at least 17 but thanx for ur advice and i hav voulenteered at a day care thats the reason we started talking bout having a baby

You need to finish becoming yourself before you can even think about starting another person. I know that sounds weird, but its true. You change so much between 16 and 25. You and your BF love each other I am sure, but you will both change and not necessarily together or at the same time. The world has so much to experience good and bad, it's hard enough to get yourself through those late teen early adult years. Its even harder to do it with another human being completely dependent on you. Nothing about being a parent is easy. You never stop worrying about absolutely everything. I mean everything finances, discipline, social development, academics, safety, the list goes on and changes with every stage of their life. It ia a wonderful experience but there is no reason to take that on at your age. Enjoy being young and independent for awhile, there is plenty of time to be a parent.

I have heard it said that the first year of a baby's life either makes or breaks a relationship.

I had my first child when I was 22. At the time, I loved my boyfriend very much, but because life often throws curveballs, we broke up when my DS was only 6months old.

Being a parent is hard, no matter what age or what sex you are. You can read as much information as you can, and try and gather as much advice that everyone will dish out; but at the end of the day, you wont completely understand the complexities of being a parent, until you are one. It is impossible to narrow it down to just one aspect. What is hard for one parent, might seem easy for another (& vise versa).

Having a strong foundation (love, respect for one another and yourself, trust, laughter to name a few), is a great starting point in thinking and wanting to start a family. Personally for myself, a big one for me was to be mentally and emotionally ready.

As I and others have stated already, being a parent is hardwork. Why would one want to throw themselves into the deep end before they themselves have truely lived? But then you know yourself better than we do.

There is no easy part of parenting.
I decided to settle down at an early age of 22 and i was in university as well as my husband and we made the choice to have children early i have just turned 28 and i have 3 boys all under the age of 4 and want to try for another one as soon as possible but the thing is we can afford them unlike other people where they don't think before they act most mothers on here would agree with me and some have got pregnant young.

In my family my older cousins all got pregnant between the ages 16-18 and my mother and father's parents got pregnant at age 18 and 20, they struggled yeah, but without struggling and making ends meet i would'nt have the parents i have today.

I'm not saying go get pregnant because i don't think it is the right time or age you have your whole life ahead of you don't ruin it. Your boyfriend might not be there in 3-4 years time while you are raising a child on your own and do you really want that for the child to grow up without they're father.