Thanks to suggestions from readers I've started posting some questions and answers on older parents. The introduction is here, followed by embarrassment and negatives here. SHB: Adopted by older parents as you were,... more

Thanks to suggestions from readers I've started posting some questions and answers on older parents. The introduction is here. SHB: Many older adoptive parents worry that their age will be an embarrassment to their kids when those kids hit the teen years. Any comment?

Kris: All parents are an embarrassment... more

I asked a while back for suggestions for topics for this Older Parent blog, as I was feeling idea-depleted. Some great thoughts came in, including a couple about seeking the perspective of adoptees who have parents that were up there in age when their kids came home. I put the word around in a few places I frequent that I had a few questions and was looking for people who'd be interested in answering. Here are brief descriptions:

Kris is 37-years-old... more

As I mentioned briefly, the 29th of May brought the debut of my assistant, Catherina''s baby. (I'd give the link for my short announcement, but apparently it was so short that there's no way I can call the story up to get a link. Strange ... )

Holly, for one, has been patiently awaiting details, so here are some:

The little... more

I GOT BLISTAS ON MY FINGAS!

(Please tell me I'm not the only one that knows that line ... ) On top ... or should I say, under? ... reading, writing and researching for today's two thousand words or so of bloggity-blog-blog I was compelled to get down on my hands and knees and scrub my kitchen floor. It is mopped daily, but you know how it is ... gunk builds up in corners and along baseboards, cracks fill with an amalgam... more

Could it be that we Boomers are not less healthy than the generations that preceded us, but only just as healthy as, and that that comes as a big disappointment to a bunch of folks as used to excelling as we are? So, before we go getting all depressed about the fact that we're going to die someday and that we're most likely not going to beat all records for hanging around longer and fitter than any group of people in the history of the world... more

There has been the suggestion that perhaps it's not that those of us in our generation, the Boomers, are really sicker than previous generations, but that we expect to be so much healthier than everyone who came before us, that as a generation we're so accustomed to being the best and the brightest and having the newest and shiniest that we can't live up to our own image of what we're supposed to feel like at 55 or 60.

It's sometimes frighteningly... more

A blog in the Huffington Post caught my eye this morning with the title, "Are Baby Boomers Sicker Than Their Parents?"

Written in reaction to an article in the Washington Post that looked at a study funded by the National Institute on Aging,... more

I've been talking about money lately, so this story from the UK titled, "Older Men Build the Biggest Debts" grabbed my eye. According to the Consumer Credit Counselling Service, there's been a 65% increase in demands for service in the last year with significant numbers of older people needing help to get back... more

I'm a big fan of marriage. I must be -- I've done it three times.

But seriously, folks ... An article from The Californian that addresses the potential for kids to lose out on positive male role models when divorce divides a family and gives suggestions on how to help build a child's self-esteme under difficult circumstances ... like when Mom can no longer stand the sight or thought of Dad, but Junior needs to grow... more