My DH gets a bit angry too sometimes because he feels that being a young dad is a lot of pressure for him to provide and whatever. It only happens on the rare days that he's had a bad day at work or Faith is being quite a pain.

I tell him that all these older dads won't half the same energy and whatever, I'm not saying that the older dads have none, but because he's only 20, he can race around with her for just that bit longer and she loves it. She never wants it to stop. I tell him that he might be more in tune with our kid(s) because of the less of an age generational gap, yknow what I mean?

Another thing I do that seems to have increased his confidence is when he suggest taking Faith somewhere, like to a playground or down the shop or whatever, I always I bet she would love that! I tend to hand over the reigns a bit more and let him see for himself that its great having kid(s) at a younger age. When we are ready to retire, our kid(s) will be full blown working, not in the middle of school and we have to find another way to support them.

I'm probably all over the place, yknow. I told my DH that being a parent would be challenging, and becoming a dad at 19 would be even harder, but we've taken it as it comes and thats really the best way to handle it.

I hope that made sense.