Pretty Womanly
I'm the same age as Julia Roberts, who just gave birth to her third child. She also has two-year-old twins.
I've been thinking (and blathering on) about this a lot lately, since my 34-year-old sister is getting married and planning to have a baby in the near future, and my 65-year-old boss and his 38-year-0ld wife are also expecting.
Meanwhile, my 15- and 13-year-olds will both be out of the house (presuming they graduate high school, and then go to college in another town) when I am 44. I used to think that was old, but now it seems pretty darned young.
The advantage, it seems to me, of having had my girls in my early-to-mid 20s is that I had lots of energy and was myself somewhat infantile. The disadvantage is that I was much less patient than I am now, and bereft of significant adult life experience that might have led me to make better decisions about how to parent. Of course it's a hands-on learning process, and by the time you get good at it there's no one left to benefit from your expertise!
That might be why I want to be a teacher when I grow up.
I've been thinking (and blathering on) about this a lot lately, since my 34-year-old sister is getting married and planning to have a baby in the near future, and my 65-year-old boss and his 38-year-0ld wife are also expecting.
Meanwhile, my 15- and 13-year-olds will both be out of the house (presuming they graduate high school, and then go to college in another town) when I am 44. I used to think that was old, but now it seems pretty darned young.
The advantage, it seems to me, of having had my girls in my early-to-mid 20s is that I had lots of energy and was myself somewhat infantile. The disadvantage is that I was much less patient than I am now, and bereft of significant adult life experience that might have led me to make better decisions about how to parent. Of course it's a hands-on learning process, and by the time you get good at it there's no one left to benefit from your expertise!
That might be why I want to be a teacher when I grow up.
posted by yelhsacrow at 12:53 PM
1 Comments:
I've been thinking about this a lot recently too. I had my children when I was still a child myself, and now they're adults and I'm still a child. I find myself wondering if I'll ever feel grown-up.
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