Do you consider 50+ old?

[AllStarfish]

Yes - YABU
NO - YANBU

If no, what age to you consider old.

Once I would've said yes, 50 is old but now I am 57, I am a foster parent to 2 babies aged 7 months and 12 months old and I do not feel (or look I assume, as people often ask me if I am mum to twins) old.

I’m 54, I’m not old.
However, my knees, back, ankles and fingers are definitely old.

OP what were you hoping to achieve by your post?

Is 50 too old to be a mum What do you mean by "be a mum". My DCs are in their 30s, I'm still a mum.

“Old” to me is 10 years older than my oldest parent. So 109 then

Not old. Older, yes 😂

I don't feel old, I'm 53 and feel 16 inside still. But if I think to what I looked like 10 years ago then yes, I look older.

About 75 for me

No, I don't. But I like winding my aged 50+ relatives by talking about the elderly, and giving them OAP appropriate warnings about their safety. They love that.

I'm 51. Middle-aged, definitely not old. Sometimes a bit old fashioned in my thinking. If we're living to 100 and over we can't be 'old' for more than half our lifespan.

Yes, but because I am much younger, when I am 50 no doubt I’ll think 75 is old too and 50 is not- thought that was normal?

I hope not! Old is 75+

Surely it's relative - I am 62, both parents still alive (87 & 89) and in good health so I do feel 'young' when I'm with them .

I'm 53. My parents are late seventies.

In the last 2 years I have begun to think my parents are old for the first time.

so for me it is probably 70+

but is 60 middle aged? Probably not!

45+ is middle age
65+ is “older” or retirement age
80+ is elderly

I agree with this!

No, even though I'm a lot younger.

50 next year and a 5 year old! No time to be old!

Do we have to have this boring shit every other day right now?

Yes it is absolutely ancient. Now, may I have my pension please?

Middle aged but nearing the older end of the middle age spectrum.

So quite old, yes.
I'm 30.

@MostIneptThatEverStepped

Not old. Older, yes 😂

I don't feel old, I'm 53 and feel 16 inside still. But if I think to what I looked like 10 years ago then yes, I look older.

When you’re very young yourself - a teenager, say - you imagine that you’ll feel like a real grown up when you are older yourself and I do find it strange, but nice really, how actually most of us don’t think of ourselves as properly grown up yet!

I do find it bizarre that I have children and am a mum at the school gates. I imagine people look at me thinking I must be a teen mum (actually in my thirties when I had all my DC). I was telling my DH the other day about an “older” Dad I’ve kind of made friends with, he’s probably about 50 with a reception age child, and I said how I find it weird that I’m closer to his child’s age than his age. It took me hours to realise that this isn’t even vaguely true.

Anyway, it makes me quite happy really that all the middle aged and older people I know probably feel 19 at heart too and are similarly confused about how they can possibly be old enough to have a mortgage and a car and children let alone grandchildren.

Really "you are as old as you feel" I think! I had a friend in my late 30s who "couldnt wait to be a Grandma" FFS! Conversely my cousin is late 70s and walks for miles! Very slim and elegant (Think Helen Mirren style) .

I rather hope not.

Definitely not! My parents are 80 and quite often will say something like "the elderly gentleman in the queue......"etc. I have asked them what they consider elderly, the answer to which is "anyone older than us".

They certainly don't think of themselves as being elderly.

No, it's the very beginning of middle age

Middle age is 40-65
Older age 65+

I'm 54 and consider myself middle aged. Not old, although doubtless my three DDs would disagree with me there. I'm pretty sure they think I must have already been ancient the day I was born.

I'm approaching 50 and my youngest child is 12, I'm definately nowhere close to being old. My parents are early 70s and fit as fiddles, I certainly don't see them as old either.