I have a junior, my eldest, class of 2021. My husband and I will both be 45 when he graduates high school. We also have Freshman twins/Class of 2023.
My husband and I are 39 and 40 and our 2020 kid is our younger- we had a 2019 as well.
I’m 36 and my husband is 34. My son’s father is 38. We are definitely among the youngins here, but I’ve been the youngest mom of my sons friends since he started school so it’s no longer weird for me (or them) 
My Husband and I will be about 43 when 2020 ds graduates. He is our oldest. Our youngest is 9 so we’ll be around 52 when he graduates.
I’ll be 40 when my son graduates from high school in 2020
We were 42 when eldest started college, 46 with our second (Both graduates at 17) and our youngest? We will be 62 if she doesn’t take any short-cuts. Truly, this is such an area and generational thing… it’s even dependent on what SCHOOL you are in. We were pretty average with our first two in our local district. Amongst our theatre friends and our middle son’s charter school parents? We were like 10 years younger even though our kids were the same age. It seriously just depends.
Wow, so many young parents here! I like this question. I was 52 when my son started college. That was average among my peers. I don’t have enough data to know if this is a trend, but my daughter and many of her friends seem to be marrying a lot younger than my generation did. She graduated from college in 2017, married in 2018, and now has a baby. She’ll be 42 when her son starts college.
We were/will be 51/52 and 56/57 in the fall of Senior year for our two kids.
Things change - my parents were 44/39.
Your other threads seem to indicate a strong interest in your peers. I understand that you’re at a competitive school, but focusing on your classmates (parents’ ages, what clubs they start and why) won’t help you. I’m glad you decided not to contact admissions officers at the schools your closest friends are applying to in order to tell them you don’t think they’re truly “passionate” about a club they just started and that you think they created it just to pad their resume, but I’d be inclined to drop this line of thought too. It doesn’t matter.
Are you applying for financial aid? Your parents’ ages may matter for that, but I think they only consider the age of the older parent. And I wouldn’t expect it to make much difference.
I only have 3 threads with 2 threads that concern others. What makes you think I have a strong interest in other people? As I said, I am just a curious person. As for contacting admissions officers, yes, I did not contact the admission officers. However, it seems strange that you would bring a thread up from 5 months ago.
We were 56 and 50 when the oldest graduated high school this year. We have one graduating HS in 2022 and one in 2023. We’ll be 60 and 54 when the youngest graduates high school.
58 and 61 when S graduated from High School this past June. He is our youngest.
My parents and H’s parents were in their 40’s.
In our area and especially at the school I work at and my kids attended, older parents aren’t uncommon. Most of my kid’s school friend’s parents had them in their 30’s and even their 40’s. Then again, I don’t really consider your 30’s to be that old for parenthood…especially these days!
We were 47-50 when our kids were seniors in high school. That was somewhat at the young edge for our friendship group, but not by more than a few years.
I was talking to one of my neighbors last night. He and his wife are about the same age as my wife and I – early 60s – and his youngest child is a senior in high school now. His other children are roughly the same age as my children.
My kids are class of 2014 and 2022. My husband will be 64 and I will be 58 when our youngest graduates high school. I think we may be the oldest parents that she knows about.
Oldest is class of 2019 and youngest will be class of 2021. My husband and I are 49/51. That’s pretty much par for the course in our friend group.
I will be 43 when my oldest graduates this year. I have a younger one who is 9, so I’ll be 52 when he graduates. No big deal, age is just a number.
I was 46 was D18 graduated, DH 44 and my youngest will graduate 2021. I will never forget when I went into D18’s 1st grade class and it was my birthday. The kids were guessing how old I was- all the ages were in the 40s- I thought, how old do I look!!! Turns out I was just a lot younger than their parents, they were saying their ages! A lot of our friends with kids are closer to my parents age than they are to me. You can tell there was a major culture shift between early Boomers- my parents and late ones- my friends.
I often say there is your age and then there is your “mom” age- that’s how old your kids are, you have a lot in common with your “mom” age friends as your kids grow up no matter what your actual age is.
@jeneric “Mom/Dad age” to a certain point only. My husband in particular is in a different life stage than the parents of my younger daughter’s friends. He is all in retirement saving mode (and four years of college costs), with retirement within sight, while the other parents are still on the career ladder with time to recover from college costs.
I was 48 when my oldest started college. DH was 56.
I was 54 when my oldest started and DH was 62.