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This week my high school alumni magazine arrived in the mail. Paging through it, I came across an article about alumni parents. There are a lot of them at my alma mater; this is St. Small, after all. The article made the point that Gen-X alumni parents are beginning to arrive on the scene, slowly taking over from the Baby Boomer parents.

The truly horrifying part? All six "Gen X" parents they profiled in this article? Parents who now have freshman, sophomore, or junior sons and daughters? They all graduated after I did.

Yikes.

[Addendum: last night when my beloved read this, he said, "Wow, those people must have had kids really young." Okay, yes, but he was not getting the real problem. He got it when I shouted, "Don't you understand? I don't care if these people had kids young, I care that people I went to high school with HAVE KIDS IN HIGH SCHOOL! This makes me old!"]

26 June 2008 in minnesota, land of 11,482 lakes 10 acres or larger |

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sissy2

and you aren't even 40 yet!

Posted by: sissy2 | 27 June 2008 at 03:21 PM

KWT

Yeah, well my oldest is in diapers and my best friend from 1st grade is watching his oldest get ready to start his second year of college. And said friend didn't even start particularly early on the kid front.

Posted by: KWT | 28 June 2008 at 02:35 AM

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