I feel like it would be good for me because I could satisfy my maternal instincts but also have a person who won’t smear poop everywhere and who is an interesting person already.

And it’d be good for them because they’d get cool parents (who are too young to be their real parents but whatevs) who love them and a bedroom painted to look like space.

The only issue is I’d want to be able to afford to get them everything, like beautiful clothes, the coolest gaming systems, opportunities to explore whatever they are passionate about,

and awesome family vacations and all the books they could ever want, and if they were trans the very best in terms of medical and surgical care to reduce their dysphoria , and right now money tends to be tight because of medical bills and I’m probably too sick and too much of a mess to be good at it.  

But if I were a little healthier, a little more financially solvent… I feel like I could be such a good mom to a teenager.  I’m good at dealing with romantic problems, I could set fair boundaries around substance use and explain why I don’t want them doing various things without getting propagandistic “Your brain is still developing and both weed and booze are bad for its development, wait until it’s developed fully” “Cocaine is expensive and if you ask me not a lot of fun also really bad for your sinuses”  “Heroin is  just dangerous as fuck, and if you feel the need for that level of pain relief something else is going wrong, please talk to me and we can work it out” “Hallucinogens are only good if you’re in a good place to start with, if you’re not in a good place, not a good idea”, I’d give them awesome safe sex talks and yeah.

Also if they were gnc or trans I’d hunt down a bunch of toys they wanted when they were little and didn’t get because their parents sucked and get them for them to make up for it