for those with kids, when did you realize they weren't babies anymore?

[banditgin]

I don't really remember with my oldest but for my two youngest ones (I have 3 kids) it was when I realized I bought them their own burger at McD's.

 

[Poison Ivy]

This weekend when my 14 year old son had to shave for the first time for school. They were on him last year about needing to shave. He goes to a christian school and they have a dress code check every morning. I refused to let him last year and really didn't think it was necessary this year. But they will give him a detention if he didn't so now he is all grown up!

 

[wegotchickens]

I knew mine weren't babies any more when we watched the movie "Tuck Everlasting" and then had a long discussion about why living forever could be a bad thing, and the consequences of choices. It was so cool. Our first philosophical discussion and they were so smart and firm in their beliefs!

 

[chickbea]

I think my mom still thinks I'm a baby!
I was visiting her last week and frying up something. She warned me to be careful, because the pan was hot!

I'm 40!

 

[Frozen Feathers]

I can't ever imagine not babying my little girl. Of course she is only 2.

 

[rooster-red]

2 years ago when my son started high school.
The same high school that DW & I both graduated from! At his orientation we walked the halls and I pointed out that they had moved a wall here, put in a door there....(If that don't make you feel old, nothing will)

Now he's 16, a junior, has his own car and has been dating the same girl for 11 months now.

For my Daughter it was the day I was told she needed a training bra.

 

[LynnGrigg]

...when my son finally realized that taking a bath was a good thing(from the ladies' point of view)...now we can't get him out of the shower!
...my daughter was born old.

 

[WindyOaksYokes]

okay, well.... umm... I still think of all of mine as babies

they are 18, 14, 14, 12, 7.... the only one I kindof still treat as my baby is my 7 year old since she is my youngest and last one. The others are much bigger than I am... so I cant treat or think of them as my babies LOL

by the way, no the 14 yr olds are not twins.

Tes

 

[TundraChick]

I just bought my 9 yr old her first bra!

 

[wendy]

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i still get treated like the baby too! i am 37 and the youngest of four!

with my first it was probably when she went to school for the first time.