Are CC Parents on the, umm, older side?

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<p>I’m 46 and H is 48. Married 22 years. Our oldest is almost 21 and a college junior. Our youngest is 4 and will start kindergarten after S#1 graduates in 2010. We have 5 other kids in between.
Recently our 6yo informed me that I’m the “Oldest mom in 1st grade.” Thanks. But I guess I’m one of the younger college moms. I do feel old when I’m around elementary school parents–it’s a different generation. (And not a better one! Slacker parents? Really, they should have to get a license! :wink: )
I was carded at 40, and mistaken for my kid’s grandma at 41. . . I wonder what happened that year. Honestly, I think I can pass for late 30s on a good day.</p>

<p>One of my friends is 47 and pregnant. Her H will be 60 this year!</p>

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<p>I was buying Son a sweater at American Eagle and the girl asked if it was for my grandson. It was a men’s size large. I can see asking if it was for my grandson if it was a toddler sized sweater, but I really am not old enough to be the grandma of a men’s size large person.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I have a 46 year old friend who just adopted an infant. (I just could not get up in the night anymore!) You should have seen all of us old folks at her baby shower passing tha little guy around…talk about baby lust!</p>

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<p>missypie–just believe that the salesperson’s IQ was the same as his or her age.</p>

<p>Also, I ran into one of my teachers from second grade the year I graduated from college. In those 14 years she had become 37 (and looked maybe 30). I remember thinking, man I thought she was OLD back in grade school.</p>

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<p>44 yo, have 16 yo hs soph twins (was 27 when they were born). Don’t feel 44 at all :-)</p>

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<p>I’m 55 and H is 57. Ours kids are 24 and 19. Members of our peer group (re kids) are always surprised when they hear how old we are or that we’ve been married 33 years. Obviously, we’re good at blending in (try not to talk about the Beatles too much).</p>

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<p>“I was buying Son a sweater at American Eagle and the girl asked if it was for my grandson. It was a men’s size large. I can see asking if it was for my grandson if it was a toddler sized sweater, but I really am not old enough to be the grandma of a men’s size large person.”</p>

<p>I know a woman who’s 53 who has a one-year-old great grandson by her 18 or 19 year old grandson.</p>

<p>Maybe that’s the kind of background the clerk came from.</p>

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<p>I am 46. DH is 49. Our kids are 22 (college senior) and 19 (college freshman.). We’ve been married for almost 27 years. DH was one yr. out of college. I finished three years later. I have always been one of the youngest among parents of S1’s friends. Now that my hair is turning gray, no one would think so anymore,lol.</p>

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<p>I knew someone who had a six year old and a grandchild. :)</p>

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<p>Apparently in the minority, and surrounded by Boomers… hmmm, I think maybe that explains a few things I’ve sometimes wondered about CC. :D</p>

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<p>We always end up being the youngest among parents of S’s classmates. 42(me) and 47(H). Have been married for 22 years. S is 21. :-)</p>

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<p>I’m 43 and hubby is 44. Married 23 years.</p>

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<p>59 with my younger daughter, a high school senior, applying. Elder daughter got her BA in 2001. The good thing is, I hear, that older parents do slightly better on financial aid. Fingers are crossed on that one!</p>

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<p>another " garden variety " parent here. I am 46 and my husband ( 2nd ) is 43. My oldest is 21, youngest 11.</p>

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<p>I’m 47, S is 19. </p>

<p>I’m glad I had him when I did be cause if I had waited, I probably would have come to my senses and not had the courage to be a single parent from the moment I got pregnant and for the next 20 years.</p>

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<p>Almost 58 and 55…older than dirt. One grad school kid and one college junior. But we LOOK like we’re 38 and 35:)</p>

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<p>Oldest daughter is 25, grad student-vet, son 23, daughter 22, son 21, son 18-(3 in undergrad-far,far away, sob), and 1 graduating each successive year,… and me, 43. Garden variety. All that work and POOF!</p>

<p>GONE!</p>

<p>Kat
who has lost all her kittens…sob, sniffle, sob</p>

<p>Did I mention they were GONE???</p>

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<p>I have an S <em>and</em> a step-grand S who are both 22. They showed up on this earth when I was 38. As others have said, you can do the math. H is 4 years older than I.</p>

<p>We’re older than older than dirt. But we look young, and we are NOT going to have “work done.” ;)</p>

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<p>D1 and her half-brother (dh’s son from his first marriage) are 20 years apart; D2 is 7 years younger than D1, which makes her 27 years younger than her half brother!</p>

<p>I’m going to be 57 next month; dh was 64 last November. The two of us have D1 who is 26 and D2 who is 19 (and a college sophmore). We’ll be married 29 years this year. I definitely felt like an older mom in comparison with the parents of D2, not so much with
D1. I gave my age at the doctor’s office a few weeks ago; the nurse (who was 20-something) said I looked really great for someone in her 60s! I wanted to smack her and say it’s THREE more years!</p>

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<p>I am 52 and H is 58, only D will be 21 in a few weeks and a junior in college. We’ve been married 31 years and waited 10 years to have a child. We were about average with the parents while D was in school - although we were old having a child in our respective families.</p>