Wakonda FACS students learn lessons of parenting by Ally Eckert
At least four out of every 10 girls will become pregnant before
they are 20, adding up to almost one million every year. Several
of Wakonda High School's Family and Consumer Science (F.A.C.S.)
students got the privilege of using the "Baby Think It Over" to
learn what it is like to be a single teen mother. The "baby" is
programmed with several different schedules. Every schedule is
based on a real baby's schedule for a day. The seven lucky girls
each get to take a baby home for the weekend. They have to feed,
change, and provide other care for their baby. These girls only
get a glimpse of what it would be like to be a teen parent, but
that's enough for most of them. With the baby waking up in the
middle of the night, sometimes every hour, the girls learned
what it would be like having to wake up and get ready for school
with only a few hours of sleep a night. They also had to take it
with them where ever they went. Most of the girls agreed that th