When are you a grown up?

zaxdog · 24 September 2016 at 10:01PM

Sitting thinking about this..........

Sitting here at 40 wearing clothes that many would say are too young for me and wondering if anyone else at my age still doesn't feel like a "real" adult???

For the record I have a responsible job and Mr Z has his own small business....:eek::eek::eek:

System · 24 September 2016 at 10:05PM

I felt grown up when my kids started to leave home.

I felt old when my youngest left full time education.

suki1964 · 24 September 2016 at 10:10PM

When I was a teen, parents were so stuffy and old and grown up so I thought come 40 I'd be looking for my slippers and wyncette nightie

I'm 52 and today I've had great fun with nerf guns, scalectric, painting nails, playing scary monsters and eating junk.

Monday we will be hosting older friends and it will still be madness with table tennis, archery, general tomfoolery and a good few glasses of something extremely alcoholic

Me and he just love to laugh at life. We still love winding up all the egg timers in a shop

Andypandyboy · 24 September 2016 at 10:13PM

When your parents die, and you realise you are the oldest generation....

ibizafan_2 · 24 September 2016 at 10:23PM

Funnily enough, my OH and I (both 63) were talking about this today. I was saying that I still think of myself as a girl, as I don't feel any different to when I was one. Just when exactly do you stop being a girl? When I come back from a school reunion, I talk about the "boys" who were present! I'm lucky to have both parents still alive, so Andypandyboy might have a point. Hopefully I won't find out anytime soon.

piglet74 · 24 September 2016 at 10:24PM

I'm 42, and I don't feel as old as I thought my parents were at this age.

I remember my mum having a 40th birthday party and I remember thinking she was too old for a party ( I was 17, almost 18 at the time)

I have an 18 year old daughter, and if it wasn't for her I would forget what age I actually am!!

thorsoak · 24 September 2016 at 10:25PM

I'm not sure ...I'm only 73 - and having problems accepting the fact that my big brother has now turned 80 - does that mean that we ought to be grown ups now? :-D

clairec79 · 24 September 2016 at 10:27PM

I remember when pregnant with my youngest I was cooking tea and it suddenly hit me that I must be a grown up (not sure why it happened, think the phrase pregnant, barefoot and in the kitchen hit me for some reason - I rarely wear shoes or socks inside the house)

Why I suddenly thought I must be a grown up then when the mortgage, marriage, responsible career and three other children hadn't.

I still don't feel like an adult though

zaxdog · 24 September 2016 at 10:35PM

These are amazing replies. I'm sitting here in a mini kilt with bright scarlet hair wondering if I should be acting like an adult (or at least looking like one)

onlyroz · 24 September 2016 at 11:22PM

When you meet a police officer/doctor/nurse/teacher and you wonder if they've started shaving yet.

piglet74 · 24 September 2016 at 11:28PM

thorsoak wrote: »

I'm not sure ...I'm only 73 - and having problems accepting the fact that my big brother has now turned 80 - does that mean that we ought to be grown ups now? :-D

Are you honestly 73?? I obviously don't know you, but I can't believe that you are 73, judging that solely on your posts, you just seem so much younger!

When are you a grown up?

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