# 13 yr old dad??? **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 13, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-yr-old-dad/201848 "2009-02-13T18:21:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 26
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-yr-old-dad/201848/26 "2009-02-16T15:24:48Z")
> [@Snowmobile,Nitrous. Whos all riding this year?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/snowmobile-nitrous-whos-all-riding-this-year/39612/20): > > I would have agreed with you about 10 years ago, but once the reality of parenting sinks in, your views change slightly. I was a “young” father at 19 and I know first hand what a mess it was. I don’t shield my kids nearly as much as my parents did, but you still want to maintain thier innocence as long as possible. I’m not so naive to believe that the world hasn’t changed, but I still want my kids to be kids. They can be adults till they die. Why should my 9 year old be worried about her date on Saturday night? Not going to happen. You’re not wrong, all I can tell you is it changes once you have them. I certainly understand that and empathize with it. However I think that in many cases it’s the parents emotional attachment to their children and their desire to shield/protect them from the outside world that makes them OVERPROTECT them, and then when they ARE out on their own in social situations, they end up just going with the flow since they’re not prepared for it. It’s the parents natural instinct to protect. It’s the teenager’s natural instinct to aspire for independence. It’s EVERYONE’s natural instinct to fuck. (scientists are currently seeking what happens to adult females genetic makeup once gold/diamond combinations are strapped around finger as to sex drive). Genetically, we’re barely beyond cavemen. To deny it is to deny our identity. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/13-yr-old-dad/201848)._