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When did you first feel like a grownup?

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Ellemeno:
One kind of answer for me is when I was six and had to figure out how to do my own laundry if I was going to have clean clothes.  Another kind of answer is I always felt LEAST grown up starting on those new endeavors listed in the poll, because I usually felt unprepared.  But the answer I clicked on was "When I became a parent." 

When my daughter was about 4 months old, we were with a group of family, and everyone wanted to go out to dinner, but I stayed home to take care of my baby - then I felt like a grown up.  Choosing the responsibility, realizing the long term, irrevocable impact of becoming the mother to a child who needed me, then I realized I was actually a grown up.

forsythia12:
i moved out right after graduation, 18.  that's when i felt like an adult. i lived in another town, and i had a mon-fri job and payed rent/bills myself, and could stay out 'til whenever.  i wasn't old enough to drink yet, but i never got I.D.'d , so turning the legal drinking age meant nothing to me.
i will say though that even though i moved out, i still had some growing up to do.  controling my money spending, and bill paying was a long and slow process for me.

Berit:
I really tink I'm all my ages.....from rhe young child to the woman of 54 that I am today....one ting that has kept me "young in mind" is the fact that I started my family fairly late, had my daugther at 36 and my son at 41. My husband is 3 years younger than me.

So sometimes I'm all grown up and sometimes I'm not.....maybe that's really to be "grown up".....

Skip

Front-Ranger:

--- Quote from: engblom on April 05, 2008, 05:43:01 pm ---I really tink I'm all my ages.....from rhe young child to the woman of 54 that I am today....one ting that has kept me "young in mind" is the fact that I started my family fairly late, had my daugther at 36 and my son at 41. My husband is 3 years younger than me.

So sometimes I'm all grown up and sometimes I'm not.....maybe that's really to be "grown up".....
Skip

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Wow, you are like my alter ego! I had my children at 36 and 40...my hubby is 3 years younger too! I even have a gender neutral name (Lee)! Is this a trend??

And to answer the question...I'm still waiting to feel like a grownup!

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