Age of first-time grandparents

[dchi]

I was 47 when my first Grandchild was born, That was 2 years ago, I'm holding him in my pic on here. My second grandchild was born 6 months ago. I think I will be in my 50's tho before I get another Grandbaby.

 

[Robinrs]

My Mom was married at 16 and became a grandmother at 39. I had my FIRST child at 36.

I'm 54 now and nowhere even close to being a grandmother.. and am actually looking forward to it!!!

 

[powellrj]

DH and I are both in our 50's and while we are mistaken for grandparents, we only have grand dogs at this point. Our oldest DS who is 27 is often mistaken as the father of our youngest DD who is 14. It drives my DDIL crazy that people think she is old enough to be the mother of a 14 year old, but I keep telling her how do you think it makes me feel that people assume I am the grandmother of a 14 year old! (It really doesn't bother me at all because I know I could be her grandmother)

 

[NotUrsula]

I've got a funny story on this one: last summer at our local public pool I had a rather chatty lady sitting on the chair next to me; she wanted to "know her neighbors" she said. She had two children with her that appeared to be somewhere in the 8-11 range. I'm not sure how old she was, but if I had to guess, I'd say somewhere around early-mid 30's.

So, I'm sitting there wrangling DD2 into her lifejacket, and chatty lady tells me that my granddaughter is really cute. "Um, no, actually this is my daughter." So she says, "I'm sorry, I really thought you looked old enough to have grandchildren -- I mean ... old enough to have a kid who had a baby as a teen." My reply was, "Well, I hope not to have any grandchildren for quite a long while; seeing as how my oldest is only 12." She sputtered a bit, and then tried to dig her way out with, "Well, anyway, your husband is really good-looking!"

Every time she tried to fix one unfortunate comment she just stuck that foot a little deeper into her mouth.

Of course, at the time I was exactly ... 47.

 

[Simba's Mom]

According to census info the average age is 47 k

Wow No wonder then that when I was 54 and talking to someone about his grandchild, he said "you mean, you don't have grandchildren YET?!" I just had my first grandchild at 58.