'Having a mom that had me at 40 has freed me from any fears that time is running out for me to have a family.'
to take care of the kids while my dad worked full time. In the summers, my mom would take us all to the neighborhood pool where we'd spend all day playing while she hung out with the other moms. We didn't realize our parents were about ten years older than our friends' parents, and it didn't really matter. My dad played outside with us and coached my brother in football, and my mom spent countless hours being dragged around malls by my sister and me.
By the time high school rolled around, we were aware of the age difference between our parents and our friends' parents, and I actually really appreciated it. While I had some friends with moms who were more in the drama than their kids were, my parents seemed a little calmer and wiser.
, and inviting us to play Words With Friends. They didn't retire early, because who could retire while helping three kids through college?Instead, they enjoyed work, helped us overcome our young life crises, picked us up when our cars would break down , and found numerous ways to tell us that some of the partners we brought home in our teens and young twenties were. Now that my siblings and I are out of college, my parents both still work because they love what they do.
As my friends and I quickly approach our thirties and even mid-thirties, I find myself telling my mom's story over and over again. To my friends who are single and nervously looking at their years ahead and to my friends who are struggling withof their own, I happily remind them that my mom had me at the age of 40 — YES, 40 — and my life has been wonderful. It's a shocking number to hear when you're looking at 30 worried about time running out.
If children happen for you while you're younger, that's incredible and awesome and I hope you live your life journey and love every moment of it. If children happen for you later, even into your forties, that's just as incredible and awesome and you have nothing to worry about. Trust me: I'm a product of an"older mom" and I think I turned out pretty okay.
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