Milestones for the Middle-Aged Parent
Remember when you were young and you had a pretty good sense of the boxes you wanted to check off? Those big milestones? The ones most of your peers also shared? Graduate high school. Check. Get a degree. Check. Get a job. Check. Get married. Check. Have babies. Check. What's next? Retirement? Death? After we have children, our milestones often shift to their accomplishments. (Weaning, starting school, graduation, marrying them off, becoming a grandparent.) As parents, of cou