<p>In reading the “If you want to feel really old” thread, a thought came to mind. Here in CA, I’m (at 49) pretty much the same age with my kids’ (9th and 12th grade) parents. But a friend moved to Texas and said she was way older than the other moms in the PTA. Thoughts, comments? I’m interested!</p>
<p>H and I are both 61 with 2 college age kids. Yes, we are pretty darned old.</p>
<p>54 and 58 with a college freshman and senior. I guess that makes us pretty old, just not quite darned.</p>
<p>46 and 47 with a college freshman and senior. Quite young! ;)</p>
<p>I am 52 and my husband is 54 and our kids are 20 and 22. </p>
<p>I think many parents on CC have a college degree and many of them also have a graduate degree. Often in such cases, they may not have had children as young as those who do not have degrees. I don’t know where your friend is in Texas but perhaps those parents at school that seem much younger may have gotten married young, had children young, and not gone to college and grad school. </p>
<p>I’m a little odd in that I DID get married young (age 20 ) but I still got my college degree and want to grad school and didn’t have children for nine years. My husband also was in grad school the first four years of our marriage.</p>
<p>I’m 45. I was watching the Mary Tyler Moore show today and Lou Grant’s wife had just decided to go to college because their last daughter had married and left home. She was 43. 43, and she was done raising her kids!!!</p>
<p>55 and 57, boys are 19 and 22. We’ve been married 33 years! There were a number of parents our age and older during high school, but also some 10-15 years younger.</p>
<p>I will be 40 when S leaves for college next year at age 18. My spouse is four years older than I am. We married young and wanted kids right away. It took us three years to have S and he’s our only. </p>
<p>The theory was that we’d still be young when S left for college. We didn’t realize that it’s not the years that age you, it’s parenting!</p>
<p>I’ve often thought my CC peers where older than my peers at my kids school. I will be 50 soon, and my kids are 16 and 19.</p>
<p>I’m 52, boys are almost 20 and 16. We’ll be married 25 years this summer, but we’ve been a couple for 32 years. In our school system I’d say about half the parents were younger, and a very few were older. (Mathson’s best friend’s Mom is 57 and his Dad is 70.)</p>
<p>Mom on CC is 42 =)</p>
<p>I’m 55, my husband is 66. Kids are 19 & 22. We were generally the oldest parents of their peers. There were a few the same age as me, and one or two older.</p>
<p>I’m 54 with a 19 year old, but she is the mature one.</p>
<p>The parents of CC’er types tend to have their children in their late 20’s and early 30’s, rather than the early 20’s of garden-variety parents. I met a couple once who was 39, whose daughter attended Brown. They claimed to be the youngest parents in the entering class.</p>
<p>“The parents of CC’er types tend to have their children in their late 20’s and early 30’s, rather than the early 20’s of garden-variety parents.”</p>
<p>Trying to decide what variety of garden I get to be - veggie, flower, rose, fancy herb?</p>
<p>I was barely 24 when we had the first one. Married early and decided to have our family young. Third kid at 33 made that a moot point, but I still don’t feel older than average. Many of my age peers at work are grandparents and since my kids aren’t inclined to help me fill that role, I can pretend to be younger…</p>
<p>I’m 53 and H is 54, daughter is 18. Married 25 yrs. Most people think we are in our 40’s.</p>
<p>I still contend that most parents on CC are NOT the same as parents of CC types…</p>
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<p>Omigod, do you think I should get a paternity test?</p>
<p>funny you should ask.
My older daughter had a very good friend in childhood of a girl whose father was on his 2nd marriage and had kids about 17 years apart.
The first time visiting their preschool I had met her dad- it was at a co-op , where all parents gave time in the classroom. I was trying to make conversation with her ( she was about 3 ) and I said ( boy- did I learn quick), " that it was nice her grandpa could bring her to the co-op" :o ( he was the head of the physics dept-and sadly died a few years ago)
Still they lived about a block away and they became good friends ( the older kids lived in another state)
But today- oddly enough, when I took my younger daughter to the travel clinic ( at the UW), to get her Japanese encephalitis shot among other things, the nurse practitioner her appt was with, was the older half sister of D#1’s friend.</p>
<p>well- it doesn’t say alot about how old CC parents are- but I think it does say something about if you stay within one group of friends- they may all be similar in age- but if you expand to include other circles, you may have like I do, friends who were in college when Kennedy was shot, and friends that are a month older than my oldest child! ( who is 26)
( and most of them I know how old they are because their birthday is on facebook 
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<p>Mom here 46, Husband 44
DD 17 and off to college in fall, next kiddo starting HS in fall</p>
<p>I have high school friends on FB that have toddlers and infants!! OMG, I can’t imagine being 64 yrs old when my kid goes off to college. I hope to be basking on a cruise ship in Greece when I’m 64, not schlepping to a college dorm to move my kid in as a freshman.</p>