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Anonymous wrote:For me? 50 is too old to have kids at home. I cannot imagine parenting young kids at my age. I adore my grandkids! I also love that they go home. Those of you doing it have my admiration. Just glad it's not me.

Any kids? So you mean even older kids/teens? I can see feeling too old to raise a baby/toddler, but if you feel too old at 50 years old to have a teenager at home, you probably need to work on that (eat better, exercise, get more sleep, etc.). Sometimes it seems like people who have their kids when they are young age prematurely, which I find strange.

For real!
Everyone does not have their kids at 19 and 25!
If you feel old at 50 -- DAYUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Anonymous wrote:I'm 51 and just got through dropping sophomore daughter off at college and helping her move heavy things up flights of stairs.

It was taxing -- even in my early 50's. That's what I can't figure out -- You guys that are planning on having college student kids when you are mid-60's or 70's, how are you planning on carrying all of the crap up and down the stairs?

Or are you all so wealthy that you have a butler or something to help with all that?

I'll be 55 when my oldest hits college and 60 when my second starts. Why would I be expected to lift the heavy stuff myself? My nieces and nephews (much older than my own kids) moved their friends in, and their friends helped them.

I fail to see how this falls all on the parent. My son will definitely be helping his sister, btw.

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Anonymous wrote:Check out the 18-21 year old girls. Very creepy.

Just girls?

I am speaking about men doing it. I don't find that 50 year old women check out 18-21 year old men

They do. Just not as obviously.

Ugh, that is close to my son's age. They are kids at that age. Babies.

Helicopter alert!!!!!

Jog. My knees hurt afterwards. Which is actually fine, because I always found jogging boring and prefer to walk and enjoy the scenery.

Shop at Forever 21. I get that women our age should feel free to wear the lengths of shorts, skirts, and sleeves they want. But we're old enough not to have to settle for tacky prints and cheap fabric.

I am 60 and I thought 50 was fun, still look good, kids are older, whats the problem?

Ok...here is what happens at 50+, that did not happen at 30.

If something twists, an ankle, a knee, it hurts for weeks or months instead of days.

If I think about doing something with out stretching first, I can pull a muscle. For example, someone throws a ball over my head...I think about jumping to grab it, pulled muscle (it happened).

I am sitting in a work meeting, and someone comes up with a solution to a problem...only the same solution was tried and failed 10 and 20 years ago...I remember. Sometime, the failure was slower computer resources before -- then it is ok to revisit it. Other times, it is the underlying physics. that does not change.

Things I can't do anymore:

My wife more than 1x per night

All nighters for work (but I am far more productive, and get all nighters).

Anonymous wrote:50 is too old to get drunk all the time. It just looks sad and pathetic.

eh, not out to impress anyone. If I want to get drunk I'll do it, if I don't fall asleep first...

Anonymous wrote:I had three kids between ages 32 and 36. Married five years before that and we saved a lot of money to give us a kid nest egg. It really helped. Became a GD at 62. My BIL became a Dad at almost 50 via adoption and I can tell its a strain. At 65 he has to listen to Justin Bieber and deal with the angst of a 15 year old girl. Plus he'll be over 70 when he is done paying for college. That stinks. Best age to have kids is around 28-35. Get your career going before hand, be young enough to deal with it and when you hit 55-60 become an empty nester and get on with the next phase of your life.

So, 50 is too old to have kids and too young to be a grandparent.

I tend to agree. Can't imagine myself with a newborn right now - I'm too old to have a baby and my kids are way too young.

Anonymous wrote:50 is too old to get drunk all the time. It just looks sad and pathetic.

Pot is now the in thing but of course it never went out of style. Legal of course.

Anonymous wrote:For me? 50 is too old to have kids at home. I cannot imagine parenting young kids at my age. I adore my grandkids! I also love that they go home. Those of you doing it have my admiration. Just glad it's not me.

Any kids? So you mean even older kids/teens? I can see feeling too old to raise a baby/toddler, but if you feel too old at 50 years old to have a teenager at home, you probably need to work on that (eat better, exercise, get more sleep, etc.). Sometimes it seems like people who have their kids when they are young age prematurely, which I find strange.

Roar wrote:Wear baggy cargo shorts.

Nah. 52. I can where whatever the f**ck I want to. Cargo shorts today...

50 is when you stop caring what other people think.

50 is too old to get drunk all the time. It just looks sad and pathetic.

Anonymous wrote:I'm 51 and just got through dropping sophomore daughter off at college and helping her move heavy things up flights of stairs.

It was taxing -- even in my early 50's. That's what I can't figure out -- You guys that are planning on having college student kids when you are mid-60's or 70's, how are you planning on carrying all of the crap up and down the stairs?

Or are you all so wealthy that you have a butler or something to help with all that?

No, my parents were in their 60s when I went to college--the other younger and fitter college students help you out!
After the first year, I did it myself, with my friends. Not a big deal.