Baby Boomer Parents of Toddlers and Younger
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 7:31 am
Since I'm 5X and my wife is 4X ...not to get smacked, and we have a year old daddy's little girl, we decided we need to start a group, plus a forum for parents who are over 40, over 50 and older with babies.
In checking the net, there's not alot to be found, but a great article with a strong positive tone is here: http://www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyle/oh_baby.html
It highlights some famous people having babies at our ages, and the ever increasing numbers of boomers having more children as they might also have grandchildren.
For me, God gave me a 2nd chance, and regarding children, that seems to be a rarity. I was on the road for most of my 2 kids earliest time, from my 1st marriage, and I missed sooo very much. I still feel seriously bad I took myself, their dad away from them, as it still seems to have some reflection after all these years, at least as far as I'm concerned. I know it does from them to a degree too.
HOWEVER, I won't do the same for our baby now. Our little one has my complete attention, and a full time daddy.
So maybe to soothe my own guilt, but also our thirst for info, we're doing this to get and give input from and to others in our situation, and we WELCOME people who are 40+ and 50+ who have HAD kids, so we can ask them a few thousand questions too, on how to do this, and that, etc.
What is the best baby gate, how often should we take them outside, and for how long, ad infinitum.
Soooo...as I hit the gavel, the "Baby Boomer Parents" are now a real "group" of some sort. We need a good name and a free place to meet now.
Oops, I'll have to find a free forum and free server and make some sort of a website which I'm sort of adequate at, at best. (I use mozilla to make them).
Anyone out there care to help? *Begging isn't totally out of my line now either*...
Please private message me on contacting or how we can contact you, so all of us in this position can share some brain-power and experience(s).
HERE is our Baby Boomer Parents Forum:
http://babyboomerparents.jconserv.net/index.php
Feel free to share and care.
Mark Allan Crnolatas
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy (1947-), paraphrasing Mark Twain
In checking the net, there's not alot to be found, but a great article with a strong positive tone is here: http://www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyle/oh_baby.html
It highlights some famous people having babies at our ages, and the ever increasing numbers of boomers having more children as they might also have grandchildren.
For me, God gave me a 2nd chance, and regarding children, that seems to be a rarity. I was on the road for most of my 2 kids earliest time, from my 1st marriage, and I missed sooo very much. I still feel seriously bad I took myself, their dad away from them, as it still seems to have some reflection after all these years, at least as far as I'm concerned. I know it does from them to a degree too.
HOWEVER, I won't do the same for our baby now. Our little one has my complete attention, and a full time daddy.
So maybe to soothe my own guilt, but also our thirst for info, we're doing this to get and give input from and to others in our situation, and we WELCOME people who are 40+ and 50+ who have HAD kids, so we can ask them a few thousand questions too, on how to do this, and that, etc.
What is the best baby gate, how often should we take them outside, and for how long, ad infinitum.
Soooo...as I hit the gavel, the "Baby Boomer Parents" are now a real "group" of some sort. We need a good name and a free place to meet now.
Oops, I'll have to find a free forum and free server and make some sort of a website which I'm sort of adequate at, at best. (I use mozilla to make them).
Anyone out there care to help? *Begging isn't totally out of my line now either*...
Please private message me on contacting or how we can contact you, so all of us in this position can share some brain-power and experience(s).
HERE is our Baby Boomer Parents Forum:
http://babyboomerparents.jconserv.net/index.php
Feel free to share and care.
Mark Allan Crnolatas
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy (1947-), paraphrasing Mark Twain