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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 41, my kids are 17 and 15.

I have friends just starting to have kids. That would suck.
We are young and healthy, I'm a few years we can travel WHILE STILL HEALTHY. 
No medications or canes needed.
 Hopefully we can do this for 20 years or more. Yeah, we are lucky and smart.[/quote]

Oh, please. Stop patting yourself on the back. Your good fortune to meet your partner and have kids when you were young has nothing to do with being smart. Is it so hard to imagine that others didn't have the option to have kids in their 20s and early 30s? the OP's question was about parenting in your 50s, not a request for those who had kids younger to gloat and speculate about being an older parent.

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I front-loaded my adventures.  I lived abroad in my 20s and had fantastic life experiences.  Would not trade those memories for anything.

Met my husband when I was 33, married at 35.  I am 55 now and my kids are 18 and 16.

None of us has complete control over when we meet our spouses and marry anyway.[/quote]

This is very true. I have recently been reading about women with "situational infertility" - - meaning that they have not met anyone to have a baby with for whatever reason. I too met my TH at 33, we'd at 35. I consider myself extremely lucky. I had my first kid at 39 and my second at 41. So I'm following this thread with interest. We travel domestically and internationally with our kids because we think it's important to exposure them to different cultures and to travel at a young age. I would feel terrible if I saved up a lifetime of travel for when my kids left the house, but that's just me. [/quote]

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