If you have kids in lower primary, how old are you

I’m 46 with a nearly 9 year old. South coast private school. Age Range is 40 to 50 . So you would be at the top end. We all hang out together though. Personality is more important than age

I was 32 when my eldest started reception. South east

Our school mum ages range from 25-50ish at a guess and it’s sometimes hard to know if they’re grannies or mums. Quite a few will have a huge range in their children’s ages too with blended families.

Dads have an even bigger range.

I'm 38 with a nearly six year old (in Y1). My other DC is nearly 3 and a half.

I'm 28 and the youngest mum on the playgroup for my 4&5 year olds
And definitely the youngest on my 10year olds.
Most parents are mids 30s to 50s.
I'm in Staffordshire in a small village.

What part of Cornwall? The part I’m from it’s mostly younger mums. Myself and my friends had our first at 20. Where I live now though the mums are older.

I'm in SE and am 39 with a 6 year old. On the younger side of mums in my sons class but I had my second at 35 so probably will be on the older end when he starts school next year.

Eldest DS has just finished his GCSEs. I'm 41 and one of the younger mothers at that school.

DTwins will be starting school in September and I will be about average age for that school.

Affluent area.

It's going to vary massively depending on the type of school and the area. My DC are older now but I was in my early thirties when they were in early primary.

34 with a 5 year old... Admittedly, I don't have any "mum friends" with kids similar ages despite taking my son to baby groups and things before returning to work, full time, when he was 12 months old.

I am 47 with a child just finishing Y2.

43 and my youngest is a seven-year-old in year 2. I live in London.

Lots of my friends had babies 40+ so I’m median age at the school gates.

I agree this will be area dependent. I live in the north, where plenty of women have been to university, are home owners and have started their families by mid twenties. So are early thirties when their children are in infant school. But there are mums in their 40’s too.

I had the same worry when I moved back from Asia. I’m 52 with a 5 yr old. I was the oldest mum at nursery and I am for my child’s school year. There are a handful of older mums but all still a few years younger than me. I’m in a pretty wealthy area in the South East.

Despite this I found a group of mums at nursery that I really connected with and we still spend a lot of time together. Five of us (5 families) are off camping together this weekend.

I haven’t connected in the same way with the school mums but there are a few I enjoy spending time with, with the kids, and I think friendship will develop.

Incidentally I also seem to be the only single mum. There definitely wasn’t another single mum in my son’s year at nursery and I haven’t come across one yet in his school year.

i suspect in Cornwall mums will generally be younger but I could be wrong.

I was 36 when my eldest started school in reception. I'll be 39 when my youngest starts.
There will almost certainly be a range so I wouldn't worry.

As a teacher, I'd say most of my year 1 pupils' parents were late 30s, some around 40. The older ones tended to have older children. In the less affluent areas, it was more like early 30s and some late twenties.

In my NCT group, I was 31 when I had my son and was the second youngest. But the oldest in the group was only 37 and was on her second child rather than a first time mum. At baby and toddler groups, I don't think I met anyone who was older than 40. This is in a very affluent northern area.

I was 41 when dd was born...I wasn't the oldest for first child....no one cares...she just mums....it's a playground you collect your child...I think the mums ranged from 20s to 40s...

I’m in a SE commuter town and I’m 37 with an 8 year old and a 4 year old. I’m definitely one of the youngest mums in my eldest’s class. I know several mums who aren’t far off 50.

In my youngest’s class I’m probably closer to the average age.

I'm the one who sticks out like a sore thumb, I am 60 with a 4 year old joining reception this year (I am his long term foster carer).

I'm 40 and I have a 5 year old. My mum friends with kids roughly the same age are between 35-45.

When my first one was in there first year at school I was 23 (the youngest) but when my last one was in the first year I was 34 (one of the older ones)

Whereabouts in Cornwall?

I am in Devon, and 30 years older than my youngest child. I would say I’m pretty average, some are older and some are younger…

I was 24 when my eldest started reception and 30 when my youngest moved up to upper school/juniors (year 3).
I was roughly 10 years younger than most of my mum friends.

40 here with a 7 year old, plenty of us similar ages over some older

34 with a year 1 (5 year old). There’s a pretty wide range in her year, not many people much younger than me, probably 32 at the youngest probably because it’s an affluent suburb. Lots older!