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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Had our first at 28/29. Have 3 kids now (ages range between 7 and 14) and we’re 42/43.  It hasn’t been perfect for us, but it has been wonderful.  If I could go back I would have done it earlier and had more.

Just our experience. [/quote]

I have a 14 year old and 42 is on the way low end of people I know with 14 year olds maybe because my 14 year olds friends are not the oldest? [/quote]

I know exactly what you mean. Our kids go to the “fancy” private schools referred to earlier in the thread (which filters for cost which means more parents will be older to be able to afford that price point). Showing up to parent meetings there was a real generational divide when it was just our oldest. We both are baby faced and DH was once asked if he was a big brother.  For the most part, we struggled to connect with the parents of our oldest child, although we ended up really bonding as a family with another family with three kids right on top of our children’s ages and the parents there are actually a year younger than us.  We travel a lot with that family.

It is much better with our 11 year old though we can still feel slightly young around his cohort’s parents (seems to skew more Gen X). With our third it feels like we’re right inline with her classmate’s parents, but her friends are typically earlier in birth order.

We do have friends our age where DHs went to professional school together, lost touch and then reconnected when our  second child became best friends with their third child through school and our third child is in the same grade as their fifth child. They have a honeymoon baby …. who is currently a senior. [/quote]

I am 47. My oldest is 13. My youngest is 10. I feel the same age as everyone I know. [/quote]

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