Do you think your age affects your parenting?

[cryingoutloud]

I only ask because I am 28 and pregnant with my third child. I am degree educated, own my own home and car, I planned to have my childrn youngish so how did the doctor at my surgery manage to make me feel about 15 living at home with my parents.

She asked about my other children in such a way as to make me feel like'she's got nothing better to do than pop out children'. What has been the experience of other MNers?

I agree that you can be a good parent or a bad parent at any age. Older can mean wiser and younger almost certainly does mean more fun and energetic.

I wish I'd had mine at your age ... then I wouldn't be feeling approximately 187 years old right now.

See, I'm bolshy anti-authoritarian, so I'm predisposed not to give a monkeys what the powers that be think of my parenting decisions

Firstly, I think the doctor's manner is to do with who she is and nothing to do with your age or parenting.

Secondly, I do think age has to do with parenting in so far as it has to do with who you are at any given stage in your life - but good/bad doesn't come into it, and its such an individual thing, with pros and cons for most. I am a different parent, making different choices, than I would have been ten or twenty years ago...but then, I'm a very different person now in all sorts of ways.

And if its any consolation, I sometimes feel judged, or imagine I'm being judged, for being an older parent. No win, huh