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<p>A few years ago I rented the movie Rain Man because I realized my teenage kids didn’t know who Dustin Hoffman was. </p>
<p>I’d love to have my 30-year old body back, but personally, I’m loving the wisdom that has come with my 50s. Now if I could get anyone to listen to me . . .</p>
<p>Tsdad, that’s just what I wanted. Thanks.</p>
<p>She put on a little weight, but I guess that is to be expected.</p>
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<p>50s? A mere child. And what makes you think that 50 year olds have learned any wisdom? Now those of us in our mid-60s…</p>
<p>tsdad, I had no idea you were that old. You’re the oldest person here. :)</p>
<p>I am indeed old. Some regard me as an old fart.</p>
<p>tsdad, I hate to rub it in, but you are about the age of my parents :o</p>
<p>Dr. Drew:</p>
<p>No fear of rubbing it in. I knew that it was time to retire when I realized I was older than my colleagues’ parents. (Well there were other reasons too.) So what do I do? I take a job where I am surrounded by 40,000 18-30 year olds. Its fun. Maybe it’s because I miss my son. </p>
<p>Exams start next week and then they’re off for nearly a month. The campus is quiet but empty and lonely without them. Just us adults.</p>
<p>And btw, somwething to look forward to: apparently next year I can work full-time and collect social security.</p>
<p>No worries, my hubby is your contemporary. He’s still working full-time to help pay our bills & kids’ tuitions (also admits to enjoying his job). Sounds like you have a great life, TS.</p>
<p>Himom:</p>
<p>It is a great life–no complaints; hey Lake Mendota is not even frozen yet. It will be better when the house is sold and my wife is out here, and my son is out of USC with a job that has medical insurance.</p>
<p>PLus I’ve got this really great consulting gig. Got to spend last week in Ann Arbor. I was mightly impressed by their central campus, and geez do they pay good salaries.</p>
<p>I belong to a book group that has been meeting for about 5 or 6 years now. Most of us know each other because we have daughters roughly the same age.( my younger daughters age- who is 16- most of the others have 15 year olds)
I am- actually the youngest , as I discovered when we were discussing “where we were when Kennedy was shot”.
( the quintessential Caucasian liberal question)
I was home ill, from my 1st grade class, helping my mother fold my sisters diapers.
Quite a few of the others were in college- ;)</p>
<p>When I had my first- I felt I was very young-24, ( especially when I see my daughter at 24 & realize that that is how old I was !!!)
although I had peers who were having their 1st at 40 & I envied them, because they seemed to have it so together.
I was 32 when I had my next, which seems to be a much more reasonable age-</p>
<p>I had my 1st when I was 29 & my 2nd when I was 31. I have no regrets, but we were the oldest 1st time parents in our Lamaze class (lots of others teens or barely 20s & one couple was starting their bew family–technically their 1st because the other families they had were with other partners).</p>
<p>My sister had her kids at a younger age (she also married at a younger age). She’s got one D starting her professional career as an attorney, one graduating with a BA in psychology this term & one a college frosh. We have a S who is a frosh & our D who is struggling to overcome health issues to finish HS. The journey is not quite what we had invisioned, but with love & patience, it all works out.</p>
<p>Yes, we are definitely at that age when we wonder where the years went. We recall typing on typewriters and practicing with slide rules and start to tell those “When I was your age” kind of stories. Worse, I’ve been shocked many times recently when I’ve caught a quick glimpse of myself in the mirror and the face reminds me of my grandmother! And last week I saw some friends whom I hadn’t seen in only 2 years. Still, all of them looked significantly older and most had developed a deeper frown line between the eyes–the one that comes from giving those high schoolers the hairy eyeball!</p>
<p>I still have a long haul in front of me with my youngest, who’s 8. She’ll keep me plenty busy.</p>
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<p>I wasn’t born yet :p</p>
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Tsdad, you might be almost as old as me, but you wouldn’t join the CC AK club</p>
<p>Dado:</p>
<p>We have had this discussion before. I denied then, and I continue to deny, that I’m an old s…</p>
<p>This past week on the Discovery Health Channel, they followed a man through the entire process of a face lift. He looked great afterwards.</p>
<p>He was 56! Since I’m not far behind, that really hurt (especially because he really NEEDED the lift, well as much as you could need anything like that).</p>
<p>Of course “I” don’t need one;).</p>
<p>To me it’s just a number. I think of myself as a young person and today I think most people our age pretty much do. OK, OK talk to me in a few years when I reach that big birthday! My grandfather used to say that inside his head, in all the ways that counted, that is in how he saw and experienced the world, he felt he hadn’t changed much as a person since he was 17!</p>
<p>NYmomof2-
You Win! You are, as I refer to myself, and old broad with young kids. However, I was “only” 37 when my younger s was born (almost 38). </p>
<p>Bhappymom-
I always figured I’d be sitting in a rocking chair drooling into a cup when my youngest graduates from college.</p>
<p>I went to a garden party last night. A fellow asked me how old my boys were. I started to say “20 and–”" when he stopped me and shouted “You don’t look old enough to have a 20 year old!”</p>
<p>Hint: it was pitch black with no garden lights, LOL. That does not happen when the lights are up.</p>
<p>Tsdad, you are older than dirt! Who knew? You write like a 45 year old kiddo!</p>
<p>DrDrewsmom–are you sure you wouldn’t rather be in the Kid Cafe?</p>