….I’m getting gray hairs.
My son and daughter are playing, “Mom and Kid” and my daughter informs me that I can be the grandma in the game. I immediately tell her that I’m way too young to be the grandma. Then I realize that IF I’d gotten pregnant at 16, and IF the resulting child had gotten pregnant (or gotten someone pregnant) at 16, WOW. I, by all biological rights, could be a grandma. And in some cultures and past centuries, would almost have been guaranteed to be.
I think I just heard another gray hair sprout.
You think too much.
Thank goodness she does, Jackie, otherwise I could be a great-grandmother!!! Of course, my mom would be a great-great-grandmother and she would love it!
Jack: You’re not the first to say that. In fact, I’m quite sure it’s not even the first (or second, or third) time you’ve told me!
Titi: I can’t even imagine what our lives would be like now!
I once met a woman who was just as you described. Herself pregnant at 16 and her daughter as well. Wowzers.
I’m a little afraid to do the math to see if that could be me too.
Hsien: There’s one woman I know who was the same. 32 and a grandma. It was a different culture and such, but I still can’t imagine. Although think of the energy you’d still have for your grandkids! I’m going to be wasted by then!
Michelle: Don’t read my reply to Hsien.
I actually used that in a lesson with one of my students today. She is 15 and looks after her boyfriend’s (Or is he an ex this week) kid as well as her neices and nephews. She calls all of them her kids. I said, by the time you are 30 you could be a grandmother if the trend continues. She was rather shocked when that hit her. The reality that some of my students face…