The Baby Borrowers

As a night owl I tend to flick channels on the television to watch in the background while multi-tasking. I tend to like documentaries and dramas. Well the other night I flicked onto The Baby Borrowers. This a real life show where teenagers who want to be parents are set up in houses with real life responsibilities then are put through the tests like simulated pregnancy and trial periods of looking after children at various ages starting at infancy. 

I'm sorry but I just don't get this show.  These teenagers are thrown into grown-up situations without having the coping skills and don't forget teenagers are still children.  They have no support system especially from their families and then from the get go are given an out in that a nanny will step in if the borrowed baby is at risk.  In addition to that the biological parents of the borrowed baby step in rather judgmentally when in fact they should not be putting their child in that situation to begin with.  Of course an infant is going to cry non-stop in a different environment away from the main care giver the baby is used to.  So the show is very flawed right from the start even though it does have the good intentions of showing the teenage want-a-be parents that being a parent is not as easy as it appears. 

We were young when we got married, too young by some opinions.  There was no chance to practice being parents or anything else but we loved each other and that's all that mattered.  Our focus has always been family first.  We welcomed our kids into our loving arms and learned from them while they learned from us.  We flew by the seat of our pants and now that we are grandparents we still quite often fly by the seat of our pants.  Regardless of how old your children are they are always your babies but now we have the added responsibilities of guiding, teaching and supporting the grandbabies once again relying on the tried and true values of love and respect that have never, ever let us down.  We make the best decisions possible always with love and respect, a value we set from our dating years.  Now you can't go wrong if you have love and respect as guiding values. 

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