When do your children stop being children?
Hello.
I thought I ought to ask this question of the great public as I am unsure of the answer! Does anyone know when this phenomenon might occur? Will my children ever grow up? Having just had the eldest (who is 30! How the hell did that happen? Have I been in a time warp?) and his younger brother stay for a week I was astounded to find that it was no different to when they were teenagers. Staying in bed until lunch, dirty laundry everywhere, encrusted dinner plates under the beds! I'm sure when I was their age I had grown up a bit more than they have, although maybe my parents would disagree. Or maybe they have turned out the same way I did only now I am a grouchy old man approaching 50, so it feels as though they haven't progressed beyond teenagedom? The other reason of course could be that they don't have children of their own yet. Maybe your children only stop being children when they turn you into a grandparent and have children of their own? (Great, something else to look forward to! Grandad Ed!). Any comments to support or deny this theory would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Ed Halliday
Author of:- The Expected Demise of Bernard Fish, The Grinning Dog, Burnt Toast and Bent Noses, the almost perfect plot, pigs in paradise
I thought I ought to ask this question of the great public as I am unsure of the answer! Does anyone know when this phenomenon might occur? Will my children ever grow up? Having just had the eldest (who is 30! How the hell did that happen? Have I been in a time warp?) and his younger brother stay for a week I was astounded to find that it was no different to when they were teenagers. Staying in bed until lunch, dirty laundry everywhere, encrusted dinner plates under the beds! I'm sure when I was their age I had grown up a bit more than they have, although maybe my parents would disagree. Or maybe they have turned out the same way I did only now I am a grouchy old man approaching 50, so it feels as though they haven't progressed beyond teenagedom? The other reason of course could be that they don't have children of their own yet. Maybe your children only stop being children when they turn you into a grandparent and have children of their own? (Great, something else to look forward to! Grandad Ed!). Any comments to support or deny this theory would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Ed Halliday
Author of:- The Expected Demise of Bernard Fish, The Grinning Dog, Burnt Toast and Bent Noses, the almost perfect plot, pigs in paradise
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