I'm glad things are going so good for her in the first three weeks of Mommyhood. But really, do you really think that even if it wasn't all rosy she would say it? Good Lord the newspapers and everyone else would eat it up and she would never get a moment of silence. So really, what did everyone expect her to say?

On a side note.....alots of moms have easy babies and are able to do what she says she's doing......it's only a big deal when she says it b/c of her age.

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"It's fine to sleep with your boyfriend and not worry about birth control if you're in love! If you're in love, the baby you get pregnant with won't cry or fuss for hours on end for no discernible reason, you won't have post partum depression, or problems breastfeeding, run out of money, find yourself crying during the one shower you manage to take in a week, or have to deal with an upset, poopy baby and soiled bedding at 3 a.m.!"
- Oh please! This girl needs to get a grip on reality. I had 2 kids before I was married, and it wasn't anything like this. Jamie Lynn in glorifying being a mother. To what end I have to wonder. What she should be doing is saying "Hey, it's ok to wait". I know I wish I would have, not that I regret my girls any (they're 11 and 9 now). Life is hard as a single mom, and I would hate to see a bunch of girls go out and get pregnant because they think it's easy. My girls know it wasn't easy raising them, and I hope that they learn from my example rather than a little girl who is sadly following in the footsteps of her sister.

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I am 14 and I'd just like to say, this sends a totally wrong message to all the kids who watch that show. "Wow she's our age and she got pregnant and it's great!" It makes kids think it's okay to have sex. I know a 9 year old that watches that show, and I heard her say the other day, "I want to have a baby when I'm young without a being married". I was so completely baffled that I had a long discussion with her. What has the young generation come to. Sex is incorporated in everything these days. It is becoming ridiculous!

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I get the point you are making and agree to a certain extent, but isn't whatever she says a no-win situation for her? If she says what she said in this article she gets attacked for making teen pregnancy and motherhood look like it is always fun and easy. If she is having problems then she gets the group pointing out that it is what she gets for being a teenage mom.

As an "older mom" who had one as easy as hers sounds and then went on to have a second one who is as difficult as babies come I am glad things aren't so terrible for her, if she is in fact telling the truth about the situation. Were you personally hoping she would have a difficult baby that screamed 24 hours a day with colic for 6 months so you could write lots of "I told you so " posts?

Regardless of her age, she is a mother now and I would hope that other mothers would only wish her the best as parenting is a difficult struggle even with the easiest of babies. If someone is worried about her influence on their own children/teenagers then perhaps they shouldn't let her and Zoey 101 raise their kids.

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of course it is easy when you family has millions of dollars! no worries! take a break whenever you want! for most women being a single parent drains all of your energy, money and sanity! it is only for the wealthy.

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"Nanny feeds baby, nanny bathes baby, cook feeds me, maid bathes me, we have our routine, everything's perfect, life's so wonderful, being a teenage mom is so eassssssy!" blah blah blah. Especially if you have money and fame.

Even my 13 year old knows that you can take the girl out of the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park out of the girl. Ever.

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Aw, come on guys. 16 or not, she is a new mom and in love with her new baby. Yes, I'm sure she I sugarcoating the babypuke on her shoulders, but she has no obligation to 'be an example' to anyone. The magazine wanted a fluff piece about a new mom and baby, and they got it. At what point should she have said "Oh, by the way, I need to remind my fans that I am a big slut and I don't deserve to be happy"?

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I'm sorry, I know she's a young single mom, and some of us have been there. She and her baby deserve to be happy, and good for her if things are going well...but I have to agree with Tess. That family is trailer trash, and unfortunatley they are also role-models for our kids. You're are absolutely right Ivory, she's not obligated to be an example to anyone. However, she's got to be pretty dumb if she doesn't realize that kids across the U.S. DO look up to her. She is an example by the simple fact that she's famous....and famous of her own free will mind you. She chooses to stay in the public eye, as does her sister. My 12 year old sister loves Zoey 101, and it angers me to the core that this girl is so impressionable to our youth. Ok, she's a 16 year old unwed mother. Fine. Great. Just stay the hell out of the public eye and stop hyping up how great it is to be an unwed mother. This may be a little dramatic, but I feel that she is/will cause several young lives to be put on the backburner so that said impressionable teens can learn the hard way that it's not all rainbows and butterflies having a child at 16.

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First of all, I wish people would stop yanking on about her being unwed. I'm an unwed mother and you'd never bloody know. Merely tying the knot doesn't actually make a difference.
Secondly, yes, it isn't a good idea to glamorise motherhood at 16 but please remember that it is OK! magazine, who have famous mothers "present" their children all the time.
Thirdly, this girl has all the benefit of all of the help, advice etc that money can buy (but then so do I and I'm broke - all you need to do is speak to another mother!), and she has an enormous stigma to fight - her own from being so young, and the stigma of her older sister's sad relationship with her kids.
It is also important to remember that whatever age someone is when they give birth, it is better to see a baby being loved and cared for, than bitchy negative comments.
Also, while a lot of people will bitch about it in public because being negative is the done thing, being a mother is full of joys. Sure, there are negatives, but ivory said above about puke on her shoulders? I could practically bathe in my kids various bodily fluids I am so used to having them around.

I should hope that all of you are very proud of yourselves for taking apart and snippily bitching at a 16 year old. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter who she is or what she's doing. So she had sex unprotected? So what. We all have. I should know, I have a ten-month old who is standing up hanging onto the back of my chair right now and swivelling the chair back and forth and trying to sing along to the words of the song I"m listening to on iTunes (Waffle King, she sounds more like "woffwoff"), and I'm an unwed 23-year old. Big deal who you are, just once you love your baby, look after them right and deal with the situation as it happens. She found herself pregnant, and she decided to keep it. So did I.

At the risk of sounding horrifically like Chris Crocker, Leave Jamie-Lynn ALOOOOONNNNEEEE!!!

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I agree with all above who states, what’s this girl supposed to say? Should she say instead of hugging and kissing her daughter she wants to throw her up against the wall and starve her? Would that make you all feel better? Parenthood hasn’t been a chore for me. I love it too. Yes I’m a little older but so what? How many of us got “lucky” a few times and didn’t wind up pregnant? Are any of you bashing her perfect??

Also, a role model, she’s only a role model for your child if you want her to be. All you have to do is turn the TV off. That is YOUR choice. She is on a TV program, not a “true” story documentary. She is NOT Zoey, she’s Jamie Lynn. You sound like your all your own children.

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"On a side note.....alots of moms have easy babies and are able to do what she says she's doing......it's only a big deal when she says it b/c of her age."

At three weeks old, my son was an angel. We had worked out our breastfeeding issues and he slept any time he wasn't eating, which was every few hours. He was already sleeping a good six hours at night. I got to shower, I got to nap, I got to cook and eat... I had it way easier than I do now with him being a Terrible Three Year Old Who No's Everything.

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oh I have to comment again b/c well I have to.

Please remember that she was 16 when she got pregnant. She is NOW 17 and a Mom. Yes she made a mistake. BUT she owned her mistake, got her GED, and is still working. She's not doing this alone. The YOUNG Dad, who helped with this mistake, is still in the picture and helps to. Yet people are not bashing him for having a baby so young.

Like a above poster said, she is only a role model, if you as the parent allow it. She made a mistake, but in the long run gave Mom's a chance to talk about choices and sex with their children. SO what if your child is 9 or 10 or whatever. Children are having sex at a younger age and Parents need to face that.

You people want a role model, show them a teenager that made a mistake, owned her mistake (a lot of people still have that problem), and is working at doing the best she can. You can show her other examples of young mothers who don't have it as good to get your point across to.

Leave the poor girl alone. She, regradless of her family, seems to have a bright future and being 17 and having a baby, she needs something to look forward to, whether it's acting or staying home with her baby, or something else.

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I am totally against premarital sex however you can't say negative things towards just because you don't like what she did. She made a mistake but now she is taking responsiblity for it. I'm glad that her and the baby are doing great, and I hope that her and Casey get married soon so she will have some help. I think this article does glamorize teen pregnancy because she says nothing about it being hard at all or anything saying you should wait until your married. This isn't something I would want my kids looking up to or thinking was ok, they should have someone talk about how this isnt something teens should do. But I'm glad her and the baby are doing well and wish them luck.

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Alot of kids admire jamie and it was pretty early that she got pregnant right. But things happen to the best of us. And this is only showing that it can happen to anybody, the rich, the famous or the poor. Its just life!

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I think that ya'll shouldn't put her on the front cover of magnizines talkin about being a mom at a young age is easy....... Children look up to her and they may think that it's cool but it's not and a GED what about a high school dipolma...........

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You know, I was a single teenage mom. I had my daughter at 17, and I believe I had no business having babies that young. Not that I regret having my daughter, she was a blessing. But not once after having her did I encourage any teen to have unprotected sex and get pregnant. And 11 years later I still don't. In fact I just had a discussion with a 14 year old tonight and I told her while I love my girl and don't regret her, it was extremely hard to raise her so young and at times I think about what I missed out on. I told her to finish school and make sure she has a good education before she thinks about having kids, not like she should be thinking about it at 14. My point is, instead of glorifying teenage motherhood and actually encouraging other teens, she should come out and say the truth no matter what the media thinks.

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