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s/o grandparents

So I was on facebook and one of the girls I went to highschool with posted that she was a grandmother and that she could not believe she is old enough to be a grandma.

She is only 34 and is a grandma. I just thought is was CRAZY that she is so young and that she thinks this is normal.

 

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Re: s/o grandparents

  • HOLY CRAP!  My family has their kids pretty young (MY great Grandmother is 94 so there are 5 generations of us) but even so, none was a grandmother by 34!  And here I though my mom becoming a grandmother at 40 was really young! 
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  • DH is FB friends with a girl from high school with that is a grandmother. DH is 35 and she was younger than him, so I'm guessing 33-34? She also has a 2ish yr old. Crazy. I would die.
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  • I know a few Grandmas who are my age.  blows my mind.

     

  • I am by no means "ready" to be a grandmother.  I have a 2 year old.  I think that's normal Stick out tongue
  • From what you posted it doesn't appear she thinks that is "normal."  She probably never pictured herself a grandma at 34.  So, did she have a baby at 17 in HS and her 17 year old repeated the pattern?  Or maybe she at 18 and her kid at 16?

    Babies having babies usually IS a perpetual cycle unfortunately.

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  • She was 16 when she had her first. I say that she thinks it is normal because her and many other girls were married at 16 in my school. They would ask me why I was not married and thinking of babies yet. At the time I was 18.

    I just think in my small SE Texas town that is the norm.

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    DH is FB friends with a girl from high school with that is a grandmother. DH is 35 and she was younger than him, so I'm guessing 33-34? She also has a 2ish yr old. Crazy. I would die.

    Not quite as young, but my mom had a 10, 14, and 16 yr old at home when she first became a grandma. She had a lot of kids over the span of 20 years. My baby sister could have easily been my oldest brothers kid.

  • My cousin is a Grandmother with 2 grandsons.  She is 36.
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  • This sounds like my DH's family in Arkansas. His cousin had a baby when she was 17 and her daughter had 2 sons by the time she was 17.

    Um, forget being a grandma by the time I was 34. I didn't have my child until I was 35. My mom was 67 when she became a grandma.

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    She was 16 when she had her first. I say that she thinks it is normal because her and many other girls were married at 16 in my school. They would ask me why I was not married and thinking of babies yet. At the time I was 18.

    I just think in my small SE Texas town that is the norm.

    Same here.  One of my HS classmates had TWO KIDS by the time we graduated.

  • I never even really thought about it, but I could be a Grandma at 38 if Abbie has a kid the same age that I had her.  Let's all just pray that she's a smarter kid than I was!
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