THIS PAGE HAS MOVED!
Everything in this site is now built around my blog, which is now available right at krismom.com!

You'll find the updated version of this page there, or you can search the blog to find info on the subject. As a young married mommy, I blog about anything and everything from my experiences surviving PPD and OCD, to coping with pain from car accident injuries, to daily life with kids, to scrapbooking and card-making, to blogging and internet/new media topics.

It all started when I got pregnant at age 17. I always like to make it clear that the only difference between me and any other 17-year-old choosing to have sex was that small % margin of error of types of birth control! You can read the whole story on my daughter's website: click here.

Now, about a decade later, I'm almost 27, and have accomplished a great many things in my life! I'm sure that this has surprised the many people who told me that having a child at that age would "ruin my life". It didn't break my spirit at all, it only made me fight harder to still get what I wanted out of life. As a single mother, I went back to university and graduated with honours in the B.A.honours Psychology program, with a B.A.concentration in Women's Studies on top of that! I got my first post-grad job in June 2003, got married to my partner in August 2003, and although we had several miscarriages, we ended up having our second child in December 2004. I have been accepted to the M.A. program at the university, and hope to be pursuing my Masters in Counselling soon. I work full-time in the field of counselling, not to mention the peer counselling I've done over the years in my role as Coordinator of a student centre while I was in university, and of course in my role as founder of the Young Mommies Help Site!

I really hope young women can take my success story and see themselves living the same dream. I really and truly believe that being a young mom, while being a huge challenge, is not an obstacle to getting what you are dreaming of in life. I would encourage women to still go out and get a good education if they can, to see a meaningful career, to search for loving partners who will respect and value them, and so on! Yes, being a young mother is very difficult at times, but anything is still possible!

Please visit the website I founded, YoungMommies.com!