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[quote=Anonymous]It's a bit of an entitled and immature attitude, to feel you should chime in on a thread that has nothing to do with you and to which you have nothing to contribute. Normally, I'm sure most of us just ignore this kind of person, much as you do the toddler who runs in between talking adults and shouts, "I'm a big boy!"

So, OP, late fifties here, with my youngest kids in middle school and high school. Get your rest and take care of your health. I used to get by without sleep, but now it's just necessary.

You're already over the hardest physical part, the young child/baby years. Mentally, the teen years are taxing, because, well, teens like to test you and their problems are serious, with higher stakes.

There's a ton of driving them around to sports and activities.

They tend to want to stay up later than you, so you lose the late-night privacy you used to have in the years when they were younger. And you need that sleep more as older parents.

Do keep up with technology, as others have posted. We have monitoring and blocking programs on all computers and phones. They can find their ways around everything, of course, but they have a sense we're not oblivious, and that we may check up on them at any point. The sense that you might get checked up on can be helpful to make teens think twice before doing dumb things.

The upside to being an older parent is that you'll probably be past the worst of any perimenopausal mood swings by the time you need your patience and calmness about you for the teen years.

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