Anonymous
12/16/2018 03:15
Subject: How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
We are 50 and 53, with a 7 year old daughter.
Anonymous
12/15/2018 09:01
Subject: How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I shared this thread with my husband to get his opinions. His father was 40 when husband was born and died when husband was only 32. He misses his dad tremendously and would love it if he were still around. Your kids don’t care if you “traveled, and really got well established in your career” before you decided to have them. They would prefer that you be alive.
The “old parent” movement is just wrong. You people spend thousands and thousands on fertility treatments, drop the kids at daycare, pat yourself on the back for “having it all”, then drop dead when your kids are in their 20s.
Rant over.
Tell your DH his father should have taken better care of himself since he died really young. My father died at 93, and he was 50 when I was born.
Plenty parenrs die young. There are no guarantees in life.
Anonymous
12/15/2018 08:59
Subject: How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
Anonymous wrote:Have any of your kids brought up the fact that you are older parents?
Not once
Anonymous
12/14/2018 12:08
Subject: How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
Anonymous wrote:I shared this thread with my husband to get his opinions. His father was 40 when husband was born and died when husband was only 32. He misses his dad tremendously and would love it if he were still around. Your kids don’t care if you “traveled, and really got well established in your career” before you decided to have them. They would prefer that you be alive.
The “old parent” movement is just wrong. You people spend thousands and thousands on fertility treatments, drop the kids at daycare, pat yourself on the back for “having it all”, then drop dead when your kids are in their 20s.
Rant over.
Tell your DH his father should have taken better care of himself since he died really young. My father died at 93, and he was 50 when I was born.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 12:01
Subject: How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I shared this thread with my husband to get his opinions. His father was 40 when husband was born and died when husband was only 32. He misses his dad tremendously and would love it if he were still around. Your kids don’t care if you “traveled, and really got well established in your career” before you decided to have them. They would prefer that you be alive.
The “old parent” movement is just wrong. You people spend thousands and thousands on fertility treatments, drop the kids at daycare, pat yourself on the back for “having it all”, then drop dead when your kids are in their 20s.
Rant over.
Did having older parents cause your husband to marry a judgemental ignorant bitch? How do we prevent that?
One PP here. But I like what she said.
Anonymous
12/14/2018 06:52
Subject: How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
Anonymous wrote:I shared this thread with my husband to get his opinions. His father was 40 when husband was born and died when husband was only 32. He misses his dad tremendously and would love it if he were still around. Your kids don’t care if you “traveled, and really got well established in your career” before you decided to have them. They would prefer that you be alive.
The “old parent” movement is just wrong. You people spend thousands and thousands on fertility treatments, drop the kids at daycare, pat yourself on the back for “having it all”, then drop dead when your kids are in their 20s.
Rant over.
Did having older parents cause your husband to marry a judgemental ignorant bitch? How do we prevent that?
Anonymous
12/13/2018 12:29
Subject: How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
Anonymous wrote:I shared this thread with my husband to get his opinions. His father was 40 when husband was born and died when husband was only 32. He misses his dad tremendously and would love it if he were still around. Your kids don’t care if you “traveled, and really got well established in your career” before you decided to have them. They would prefer that you be alive.
The “old parent” movement is just wrong. You people spend thousands and thousands on fertility treatments, drop the kids at daycare, pat yourself on the back for “having it all”, then drop dead when your kids are in their 20s.
Rant over.
Or people start trying when they are 30, have fertility issues, start ivf, it takes several rounds to get pregnant and then have recurrent losses and then finally have success. They are happy to have a family in the end although realise they are older. Others don't understand.
rant over.
Anonymous
12/13/2018 09:23
Subject: How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Have any of your kids brought up the fact that you are older parents?
Older? Honey, we are normal around here.
People in their late 20s with kids are the weirdos in the DC area.
I would say the average is still having kids in your 30s to maybe early 40s. So yes, older.
Anonymous
12/12/2018 19:39
Subject: Re:How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
I no longer have children in elementary school, but I had my youngest when I was 43. He is 15 now.
Anonymous
12/12/2018 19:05
Subject: How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
Anonymous wrote:I shared this thread with my husband to get his opinions. His father was 40 when husband was born and died when husband was only 32. He misses his dad tremendously and would love it if he were still around. Your kids don’t care if you “traveled, and really got well established in your career” before you decided to have them. They would prefer that you be alive.
The “old parent” movement is just wrong. You people spend thousands and thousands on fertility treatments, drop the kids at daycare, pat yourself on the back for “having it all”, then drop dead when your kids are in their 20s.
Rant over. [/quote
I'd rather have an "old" parent for thirty years than a young, mean b*tch for a mother!
BTW, my young mother died when I was 20, so pi$$ off! Rant over.
Anonymous
12/12/2018 18:47
Subject: How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
I shared this thread with my husband to get his opinions. His father was 40 when husband was born and died when husband was only 32. He misses his dad tremendously and would love it if he were still around. Your kids don’t care if you “traveled, and really got well established in your career” before you decided to have them. They would prefer that you be alive.
The “old parent” movement is just wrong. You people spend thousands and thousands on fertility treatments, drop the kids at daycare, pat yourself on the back for “having it all”, then drop dead when your kids are in their 20s.
Rant over.
The “old parent” movement is just wrong. You people spend thousands and thousands on fertility treatments, drop the kids at daycare, pat yourself on the back for “having it all”, then drop dead when your kids are in their 20s.
Rant over.
Anonymous
12/12/2018 18:03
Subject: How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
Anonymous wrote:Have any of your kids brought up the fact that you are older parents?
Older? Honey, we are normal around here.
People in their late 20s with kids are the weirdos in the DC area.
Anonymous
12/12/2018 14:35
Subject: How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
Have any of your kids brought up the fact that you are older parents?
Anonymous
12/12/2018 09:38
Subject: Re:How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
I am early 60’s with a 6th grader.
Anonymous
12/12/2018 08:46
Subject: Re:How many people on this forum (50+) with kids in elementary?
52 with an 8 year old