My dad just turned 70 this year, and he heard that one of his college classmates has a brand new baby. Maybe someday parents like us will be wondering whether the octogenarian at BS parents’ weekend is really some kid’s dad.
LOL. Seems like retirement is not in the cards for that new dad!
I’m 55, with kids 32, 29, 27 and 14 yr old twins. (Grandkids are 9 and 3). I was a younger mom, now an older mom.
We are 44 and 45 
We have a senior BS student and we are 48 and 51. However, we also have a son who is 6. If he attends BS, we will clearly be pushing that typical grandparent age range.
BTW, thanks to all parents for sharing their ages…where was that call to keep parent-threads parent-only again? 
So it seems that the mid-40s range is pretty common, with some higher but few lower.
Am I understanding correctly that one of you parents of your 17 yr old eldest, is 29? Wouldn’t that have made one of you a parent at age 12?
:-?
I suspect that is a “self-identified as 29” 44-yr old
I wouldn’t touch this thread with a ten foot pole…
Was there one? I must have missed it. Regardless, I’m exempt.
Like we believe you’re really only 18, @skieurope.
Not until summer @twinsmama
What if @skieurope and I are birthday twins?!
The “Parents only” call was made before you were born i.e. joined CC. (Same difference, as my kid would say)
@GMT: Yes, that was a nod to the old saying “never ask a lady her age”…wife was a year behind me in high school.
@PhotographerMom: Was that a ten-foot or ten-year pole?
I hear these responses a lot to me and others; “you must have been 12 years old when you had your child” - response to my kid is in college/high school, or “you must have gotten your phd when you were 12” or “you must have started working here since you were 12” - responses to I’ve been working here for 15/20 years…
Surprisingly it doesn’t get old.
I have 4 kids and have not yet had a preschool class without at least one father in his mid to late 60’s….
my husband and I are both 35, we started very young
My husband and I started having babies at 35 and we have 4. The youngest is in first grade. I look around the room at a first grade parent meeting (in those little chairs) and realize I could technically be the other parents parent…
Or the teacher’s parent
Every parent teacher conference, the teachers at public schools get younger and younger (at least to me)