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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To me, age of mom doesn't matter as much as which kid is it for you.  If it's your first versus my second or third, it feels like very different life stages.  A FTM at preschool may be fretting about the sugar in the graham crackers and bragging that her kid can read, but I've got a kid in 4th grade so I'm like this so doesn't matter.  Though I'm sure some moms with kids in HS applying to college think the same about my 4th grade mom problems.  [/quote]

I agree with this. I also don’t really understand how you feel old at 37 with a 3 year old. I’m 38 with a 3 year old and seem at the young end of the middle of the pack for the other parents of 3 year olds, though my 3 year old is my second and it seems like for most of his daycare it is the first child. Whereas with my first, I was 30 when she was born and I am by far the youngest mom in her grade, and was at the daycare too. [/quote]

I think it's just the role reversal that I'm not used to!  With my oldest I'm learning everything, everything is new, and I am generally youngest.  Now with my 3rd I'm like the experienced parent with older kids and I am the older one in actual age too.  I know it's helpful to have mom friends at all stages and you can learn from each other!  With #3 I'm pretty laid back etc. - like seeing it's not worth it to stress about preschool, etc.   (I still toured them and picked one I liked but in general I'm cool with whatever they do there now and I really don't talk to the teachers about any concerns.  For ex, if my daughter tells me a kid hit her or something I say - well tell the kid you don't like it, etc.  I don't call the teacher to say someone's hitting her or whatever - obviously if it was an extreme situation I would, but not minor usual stuff that I feel like i used to stress about with #1).

I'm friends with everyone of all ages I think. My own grandmother had my mom when she was 46.
I was born when Reagan was president and the only time I feel like I had a real shock about another mom friend's age was when she said she voted for Reagan and I was surprised that was possible.  That's the most I've ever really thought about someone else's age.[/quote]

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