I am 50 years old with 2 small children. There are benefits and challenges.

I became a father when I had in the late 1940s and I knew that the decision means I would be an older parent.
There are a lot of benefits and some challenges.
I am not as energetic as when I was younger, but when they are when they let me relive my childhood.

With me and my wife I decided to have The first child when I was in the late 40sAnd I knew what I’m going on. Before I was a writer, I have been an elementary school teacher for more than a decade. I was a witness for the first time that an older parent would enter the class to pick up their child, and the rest of the students would think it was actually their grandmother to pick them up.

Usually, those parents laughed at the mistake, but I would be willing to bet that some of them felt occasionally injured and isolated.

And now I am here. I am 50 years old with two young young children, and I myself are just a year or two away to be likely to be wrong with their grandfather.

My wife and we met at 41 years old

I didn’t have the first meeting with my future wife until 41 years old. Then after we got married, he had to Pass through the IVF For a year, but I was lucky that we have good embryos, who later proved to be Ellie and Jack. We are quite older than the parents who had similar children, but we felt updated.

I have less energy than I had if I had children earlier

Those who are 50 years old and older realize that things change when you reach this age. You can literally lie down your completely healthy night and then wake up in the morning with some kind of injury. Everything is very strange.

But guess what? My kids don’t care that I somehow pulled a hamstring while I dreamed. I want on the floor playing with them or running after them, while pedaling their bicycles on the street.

They want to meet all the characters in “Bluey” and I can sing with “The Wiggles”. Without excuses. Maybe younger parents They are more updated in some of these things, but I still look back at “Scooby Doo” and other childhood shows.

The author is 50 years old and has two children, 3 and 5.

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We are more stable than when we were younger in a few ways

We’re a lot more financially stable than I was when we were younger. Money is no longer as much problem. Besides, I still remember that I was 25 years old and I tried to figure out how to be an adult myself. At that time, I still ate cereals several times a day! Most of the time nowadays, I feel like we have worked for adults.

Besides, I would like to believe that I have more patience than I used to. If One of my children behave wrong Or having a hard day in general, it is easier to wait for the storm and help them.

I have to relive my childhood through them

Something I never really considered when I have children so late in life was that I will be reliving my childhood through them. I share with them what I was doing as children in “times”.

There are times when I feel ancient, such as explaining that the phones used to hang on the walls and did not have screens with fanciful applications in them. But there are times when I feel like a small child again, while we play the house and discuss what the most powerful superheroes are.

As you get older, it reflects you on your life. I have to educate my children on the old television shows that I loved, the children’s books that I have read several times and share life lessons with them that have taken decades to learn.

Time moves differently now that I am a parent

As I spend every moment with Little Ellie and Jack, I realize that I will probably have less time with them than younger parents. Jack will only graduate high school when I am officially a citizen.

I’m going Meet my grandchildren One day? God knows only. But I want my children to remember as much as I can, so they can share memories with their own children, if they are not around.

I do my best to make sure that memories do not fade too much in time. I wrote a few large-scale children’s books that use situations that our family has met.

I have no regret

There are days when the children wake me at 5 in the morning and they want to play. There are weeks when I don’t have the opportunity to talk to another adult. But when I am on my death bed a day, I will not regret that I could not sleep until late. I will not want to have the chance to take care of the latest shows and movies. I will think of my children and I hope I will do my best with them.