Parents of teen moms. What was your experience, how did things, if at all, change between you and your daughter?

We have three girls, now all adults ages 30, 22, and 19.

Update: How old were you when you had your children

We adopted our oldest daughter after she became part of our family. I'm the same age as her original mother, 17 years older than her. I was 25 when our now 22 year old daughter was born, and 28 when our now 19 year old daughter was born.

> how old were your daughters when they got pregnant/gave birth if that age is different.

Our oldest daughter gave birth to her daughter when she was 17. In her original family, she had been horribly abused and sexually assaulted on a daily basis. Our other two girls are not mothers yet.

> Did you have open dialogues when it came to sex and reproduction?

Yes, always.

I think ages 12 to 14 are the hardest. I don't have boys, so I don't know how it is for them, but for girls these are the hardest years as they are changing so rapidly and have mood swings and have to learn how to deal with all of that. We always told them they were free to feel angry, etc. but they were not allowed to take it out on anyone else. We talked openly about how our feelings are influenced by hormones sometimes and just because something someone is doing feels irritating to you it doesn't mean the other person is necessarily doing it to irritate you.

Our granddaughter is now 12 years old and our daughter is learning how to negotiate these years with her. ; ) I am incredibly proud of her. Despite living a nightmare of a childhood, she is one of the best moms I know and is doing everything she can to give her daughter the childhood she did not have.

Well they get there little attitudes and into makeup, want nails done. Nothing much but you going to have to let them hang w/dad, so those little boys want be on their minds.