...I Got To Thinking

This is just a little post about something we ponder about a lot. 

Me, Katie and Anna are 19 and Mhairi is 18.  When Chilean people hear this, they just about keel over from the shock.  We are considered waaaaaaaay too young to be out in the big wide world all by ourselves.  Now that view isn't all that strange to us, as some people at home would agree with them and we're not exactly a typical example of British teenagers.

The thing that confuses us is that if we were married with our first baby, but lived with our parents or inlaws, that wouldn't be seen as that unusual.  So we are not considered old enough to have the responsibility of looking after ourselves, but are considered almost old enough to be married and mothers! 

It's just a cultural difference, I suppose.  Most young people here stay living at home at least until they are married, and even then the couple usually live with one set of parents.  I'm not saying that one way of thinking is better than the other, it just seems strange to me that girls who are not considered old enough to cook and clean  for themselves can be considered old enough to have a baby...how does that work?  I like to think that I'm pretty competent in the kitchen and am capable of keeping a house clean, but there's no way I think I'm ready to have a baby! 

 But that may just be because I'm too busy off doing my own thing for the idea of settling down at such a young age to have any appeal whatsoever :)

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