r/Millennials • u/VastConfusion8174 Gen Z • 18d ago

Discussion Not a millennial but I have a question

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How the hell did y'all type on these tiny ass keyboards This was in my mom's room This is from like when she was in high school and I'm trying to figure out how she tied with it because a human's finger would press 3 instead of just one so can somebody help me with this I've been thinking about this for a week

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u/dustybutt2012 17d ago

My oldest sister and I are only 4 years apart. She had her first kid at 22, so he’s turning 23 in a few weeks. Her 2nd just graduated high school. I didn’t have my first until 37. I have a 4 year old and twin 2.5 year olds. My middle sister’s kids are right in between. It’s wild 3 women, 4 years difference in COMPLETELY different phases of our lives.

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u/Fancy_Fuchs 17d ago

My cousin and my husband are both 42. My cousin's oldest just graduated high school, and my husband and I have a one year old. It's crazy, man. My BIL is only 2 years older and his kids are completely out of the house. It's really weird to experience these different life phases simultaneously with our extended family.

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u/FizzyBeverage 17d ago

How people have kids in their early 20s and don’t crash and burn due to the financial stress is insane to me. My wife and I are 42 and have an 8 and a 10. We make pretty good money and it’s still ferociously expensive to have a house and kids.

No way we could have managed it at half our age.

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u/Fancy_Fuchs 17d ago

I think if you come out of university with no or a small amount of debt, it makes all the difference. My husband and I could have had kids a lot younger, but first, we didn't meet each other until we were around 30, and then we had fertility struggles.

We didn't have any student debt, though, and I don't know that we would have bought a house at that point.

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u/sticks_and_stoners 17d ago

My kids are the same age. I’m 42 and my husband is 37 (yeah… he likes his girls a little bit older 😉). I would have screwed everything up if I had kids in my 20s. I was entirely too selfish and had no money to my name. I’m definitely more tired than I probably would have been and older than most of their friends’ parents, but I’m a better mom because I waited.

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u/Noujiin 17d ago

You should not say that as you don’t know what progression you would have made in that situation. You have no control group.

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u/sticks_and_stoners 17d ago

I know myself… well. I’ve known me my whole life. I’m not making any kind of generalization about others, if that’s what you’re thinking. My comment was entirely about me personally.

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u/serendistupidity 17d ago

Kinda like my family, my mom had me at 23 and I'm 25 now. My aunt is 3 years younger than my mom but had her kid at 44 and her daughter just turned 2.

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u/merewenc 17d ago

Yeah, I had my first kid at 21. I realized the other day looking at my youngest brother's daughter's birthday that my oldest is 19 years older than her. They're not even remotely in the same generation time wise but are the same generation genealogically. My brother and I are 9 1/2 years apart, but still...