Question: I am in great need of your insight and spiritual guidance. My fourteen year old daughter is eight weeks pregnant. Please bless me and my family with your wisdom, so that I can help her make the right choice for our future. GURUMAA: Dear Carina, my heart goes out for you and for your daughter, fourteen years old is such a young age, this is definitely not the age, where a bubbly child, a sweet daughter becomes a mother, where she is not even ready to cope up with her own body, to be responsible of her own actions, where the law isnt even permitting the right to give a vote or drive a car. A person if is getting pregnant at this tender age of fourteen, this is definitely a big challenge in front of you and also for that little girl. I would suggest now that if you have decided to carry on with the pregnancy, if that is your decisions, then you really have to act in a very mature way, in a very sane way. And also you have to help your daughter, to understand. You know, you are just going to help her to move at least, seven to eight years ahead of her age, to think correctly, and to grow up in a greater speed, so that she can handle her body and the responsibility which unknowingly, unintentionally, she has taken on herself. Creeping about it, quarrelling about it, crying and sobbing about it, is not the solution, you have to be very patient and you have to understand that the ability to take responsibility of the child is not a small thing. Your own daughter is so young, fourteen years old, and here she is going to bring another child, so in a way, you will be handling two children, one your daughter and other child which is in your daughters body. So this may be the best way to deal with the situation, but I hope, that you can create a certain educative environment at your home, that your daughter learns from it for being responsible for herself and for making right choices, and not just indulging into senseless actions which one day are going to become a burden either on her or on you.
