Being a young parent can have its challenges, but it just occurred to me

[LaraMN]

that when my LAST child graduates from high school, I'll only be 43.
That kind of rocks, a little bit.

:bounce:

[soleft]

1. My son just graduated and I'm only 44

It totally rocks!

[LaraMN]

3. Awesome!

Enjoy the freedom, and congrats!

[soleft]

5. Thanks!

He's not going away to college, his Dad works at NYU and that's where he's going. They live together in an NYU faculity apartment. So the important thing will be making sure he has his freedom!!!

[Arugula Latte]

2. That's cool ...

You'll be a young grandma, too.

I think there's something to be said for younger parents if you can handle having kids in your 20s. I wasn't ready, but many are.

I'll be 52 when my youngest graduates from high school. :(

I think a lot of people wait too long to have kids these days. I know someone whose wife was 44 when she had her first child, and he was 58! I feel sorry for the kid, frankly.

[LaraMN]

4. I'm cool with people having kids at whatever age they feel ready,

but I'm counting my own blessings, for certain!

Really, I'll probably hate it when they all leave...

[gmoney]

23. Maybe you'll be a GRANDMA by then...

and you can have all the fun of kids, then give them back to the parents when they get cranky or messy.

[Left Is Write]

29. My sister is 44 and pregnant with #2.

#1 was born when she was 41.

I don't feel sorry for her kids (actually, the way she dotes...I'm kind of envious! ;) ).

[Eurobabe]

6. I was 42 when my youngest daughter graduated

they still want to hang out with me, cuz I am hipster (at 47) They spent 3 weeks of their vacation here in July, that to me says alot. :D Plus they email me almost everyday, we talk several times a week.

We have such a fabulous time together. Kind of like the 3 Musketeers. LOL. I think my poor hubby feels a bit left out though (he's been with us since they were 7 & 9).

:evilgrin:

I look back at some of the dumb things I did when they were little kids, like never using a baby monitor or a playpen, but they are no worse for the wear. :hi:

Hats off to young parents!

[LaraMN]

7. Cool!

I hope I'm that close with my kids when they grow up!

[Midlodemocrat]

8. When my last child graduates from college

I'll probably be dead.

[LaraMN]

11. No you won't.

You'll still be suckin' back wine coolers and kickin' it, Midlo-style!
I will push your wheelchair.

:rofl:

[Debi]

17. !!!

:spray:

I expect Debi Jr. to support me in my old age - DAMMIT :grr:

[sasquatch]

24. And you'll prbably get a cut rate coffin too

So TM can spend it all on winecoolers for the wake.

[Burma Jones]

9. There's something to be said for that.......

When my oldest graduates, I'll be 56. When my youngest graduates, I'll be 65. I'm starting to think....Boarding School.....

My Dad was 23 when I was born, and 46 when my twin half brothers were born. When my wife and I were making out our will, we asked whether he and my Stepmom would be interested in raising the kids if the worst case scenario occurred, his response, "I've had kids my whole damn life".....We've designated my Wife's Sister just in case......

I regret nothing......

[LaraMN]

12. Wow! That's a massive spacing!

:o

[Omphaloskepsis]

10. I graduated High School when I was 21.

I'm not joking.

18 isn't the magic number.

*I was home schooled for my 9th and 10th grade years. We were under the impression that what we were doing was accredited. It wasn't. So, when I started a public High School I was a 16 year old freshman. I ended up getting my Diploma from a Community College. It wasn't a GED, it was from the "Adult High School."

I didn't have any problems getting into a University with it.

[LaraMN]

13. No way in hells am I home-schooling!

(Unless they start teaching creationism in the public schools, or something.)

:scared:

[Shine]

14. That's how old I am right now....and my youngest is almost 11

I'll be 51 when she graduates in 2015. It could be worse. :D

[Parche]

15. Young

You will always be 'Young in Minnesota'!! :bounce: :bounce: :hi:

[Debi]

16. Hey, I am 39 and Debi Jr. just graduated!!!

I have my whole 'adulthood' to do naughty things w/Mr. Debi now!!! :evilgrin:

If Debi Jr. doesn't like it he can just move out!! He's an adult now...afterall :eyes:

Congrats on being so damn young!!!

[kay1864]

18. Very Very Early Cougar Alert!

Males of MN, you have been warned.

Many years in advance.









:rofl:

[Pierre.Suave]

25. Dont you worry

I am already marking my calendar. :headbang:

[kay1864]

27. Consumer tip:

Bring boot polish.




:rofl:

[Pierre.Suave]

47. why?

is my tongue not good enough?

;-)

[SarahB]

19. I'll be 47!

Unless my current husband and I do something nuts like spawn together. Then we'll both be about 90.

[Bjornsdotter]

20. My Mom was 34

....when I graduated from high school. She was a young one...

Cheers

[Left Is Write]

22. I was 38 when my daughter graduated high school...

but I did turn 39 a month later.

And now I'm 41 with a 7-year-old and a 5-year-old.

:D

[Bjornsdotter]

28. I give you a lot of credit

....my Mom was really a month shy of 34, she was 33 as she reminded me on the phone. :spank:

My parents did the same thing they had me at just 17 and 19, but they were 30 and 32 when my sister was born. My Mom said she was the youngest Mom in my class and the oldest in my sister's.

It's sorta nice to have an older child and and younger children although at 47, I'm glad my youngest is going away to college tomorrow. Sigh, I am old....

Enjoy your little ones, as you know it goes by so quickly.

:toast:

[SarahB]

36. I'll be 38 when my daughter graduates too.

In less than 3 years. :scared:

My youngest is a first grader, so I've got a ways to go myself. ;hi:

[Xithras]

32. Yep, my sister was 15 when my neice was born, and will be 32 when she graduates.

Of course, she didn't stop with one so she'll have a few more years to go. I believe she will be 36 when her youngest fourth child graduates. Yep, four kids before her 20th birthday.

She readily admits that she was young and incredibly stupid, but she's done a hell of a job raising those kids (mostly on her own).

Her greatest fear at the moment is that my sexually active 14 year old neice will make her a grandmother before she turns 30 (she has a few more months to go). Apparently the girl is being pretty defiant and open with the fact that she's already slept with several guys. The thought boggles the mind.

[Bjornsdotter]

38. I give your sister a lot of credit

...it's not easy being a young mom with one, let alone 4. My Mom always said she was harder on me because she was afraid of people judging her negatively for being a young mom.

My heart goes out to your sister with her daughter, it's so hard....kids always think they know everything. Unfortunately what your niece is going through is not uncommon, that doesn't make it any easier though.

:toast:

[Rambis]

21. I will be ooofdah!

never mind:(

[RetroLounge]

26. when my LAST child graduates from high school, I'll only be 58

ouch...

:cry:

RL

[lizziegrace]

35. That's okay

you packed a lot of living into those years before kids. :hug:

[Bjornsdotter]

39. Don't feel bad

...my kids attended a private school and they were in the choir. At one performance they wheeled in this really old (I mean OLD) gentleman in a wheel-chair sucking oxygen. I commented to the person sitting next to me "that it was so nice that somebody made sure that grandpa got to see his little darling sing." The person next to me said "OH, that's my husband....the Judge." The Judge had to be in his late 80's and his kid was 8.

:toast:

[triguy46]

30. A perfect age to start taking care of your parents.

Just had to toss a little rain on the parade from those of us being 'sandwiched.'

[lizziegrace]

31. It was nice

only being 44 when my daughter graduated from HS. :)

All of her friends had parents into their 50s.

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[Critters2]

34. If I had a kid nine months from now,

which would be the best I could hope for (but not bloody likely), I'd be 65 when he/she graduated from high school.

My life is pathetic.

[yellowdogintexas]

37. when I was 43, my daughter was 7 nt

[dpbrown]

40. When my FIRST child was born...

...I was 45.

I had a hell of a twenties, though.

:rofl:

[Eurobabe]

46. Yeah, you either have wild 20s or wild 40s

don't know which is better? I'm enjoying my wild 40s, moving where ever my heart desires, traveling, and enjoying my kids as adults. I was too conservative in my 20s to party hearty. :thumbsup:

[zanne]

49. Wild 20's are better because...

People forgive stupid mistakes when you're in your twenties. When you're in your forties, you're on your own.

[Eurobabe]

51. Well, the wildness you have in your 40s is more about

sophistication: nice vacations, life-enriching things. Income level is definitely higher, kids are through college, although we help with grad school for my youngest.

I actually think having young kids saved me from DOING stupid things in my 20s. So nothing to forgive. :smoke:

[dpbrown]

52. Personally, I think it was better to "retire" in my 20s

As I tell people now, when I was in my 20s I could still sleep on the ground. When I was traveling with the carnival, I slept in the back of a joint trailer. Backpacking through Europe I slept in parks, on mountains, and along rivers - I even once strung a hammock between trees in an orchard below the walls of an ancient castle on the Rhine. Today, I tend to crave just a tiny bit more "comfort" when traveling.

:)

[Swede]

41. My brother's youngest was born when he was 51.

He's had some lonnng days.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

42. my folks were middleaged

My mom was 34 and dad was 44 when they had me. For the 1950s that was unusual.

They had this problem that put everyone's life on hold called WW II.
Even though they got married after the war.

Dad always had people asking him if his 2 daughters (me the younger) were grandkids and he said "Yup" without explaining.

I don't remember him NOT having gray hair, and going bald. However he lived to the ripe age of a month shy of 89, in pretty good health.

I told them when I had my only child at 30 that they were possibly the world's oldest first time grandparents (64 and 74). Apparently not.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

43. My mom was 35 when I graduate from high school.

[Burma Jones]

44. My Mom was 37

I was 37 when my first child was born.....

[MissMillie]

45. Yep, I was just turning 42 when my son graduated high school

Just a heads up:

I've had more heartache and worry since he graduated than I ever did when he was in school.

[LibertyLover]

48. When my daughter graduates from college

I'll be 72. Oh well, my mom died when she was 90, so I'll probably still have a few good years left in me at that point.

[China_cat]

50. My oldest GRANDCHILD graduated this year

and I'm only 61.

She's a year older (almost 2 now) than I was when I had her dad. (That was even scarier for him than it was for me.)