Great Granny?
Posted by Blankbetty11@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 27 comments
I was just thinking, if I’d been a teen parent and my child and grandchild did the same then I could have a great grand baby already. I think that would be both horrifying and super awesome at the same time. Anyone doing that want to talk about it?
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Mindless-Baker-7757@reddit
My wife has a picture of four generations of women together. Best we can do now is two.
jaxbravesfan@reddit
I once had a co-worker that became a mother at 15, a grandmother at 31, and a great grandmother at 48. She’s now 63 and has a 15-year old grandkid. With that family’s long history of getting knocked up/knocking people up at way too young of an age, it’s entirely possible she could be a great, great grandmother by 65.
I was just discussing the odds of me ever seeing my great grandkids with my wife the other day. I had my oldest daughter when I was almost 28. She’ll be 25 this year and her and her husband don’t want to have kids for a few more years. So if gives me my first grandchild when she’s 27, I’ll be 55 or 56. The men on my dad’s side of the family, which I very much take after, are lucky to make it to 80. So I might get to see a great grandchild, but just barely.
MundaneHuckleberry58@reddit
I take my 12 year old son to his sport every Saturday. There’s a woman there same time as me, keeping her adult daughter company.
So we get to chit chatting. She is the great grandmother of a dude who has practice at the same time. An ADULT GREAT GRANDSON!
bony-tony@reddit
That's crazy, but even crazier to me that these two women are going to their adult (great-)grandson's sports practices.
DevolvingSpud@reddit
“The Team Grandma” is a lifetime appointment.
bony-tony@reddit
Grandma coming to my gymnastics practice when I was 12 felt perfectly normal. Grandma watching me play pickup on my lunch break in my 20s would have felt weird as hell.
Blankbetty11@reddit (OP)
Nobody attended practice when I was a kid, just games. I know it became parent-involved activity at some point but I can’t imagine having my living ancestors coming to my adult rec league practice. How awkward!
la_winky@reddit
I once worked with a woman that was a grandma at 34.
I had my kiddo at 37. I struggled to wrap my head around that one.
Talk about different paths…
LastCookie3448@reddit
My stylist was telling me that one of her clients is a great grandmother and she's barely 60. She was a young mom, her kid was young, HER kid was young, now that kid has a baby.
Quirky_Commission_56@reddit
Great granny is way off for me. I was 22 when I had my daughter, and she was 27 when she had a baby.
Boudica2023@reddit
I had a daughter at 17, she had my grandson at 18, he is now 19. She and her husband are planning to get pregnant later this year and I told my grandson hell no is he going to make me a great grandma when I’m early 50’s. He thinks it would be hilarious. I’m not laughing. If it happens? I’ll roll with it.
Blankbetty11@reddit (OP)
It would be even funnier if you still had younger kids at home!
Boudica2023@reddit
Nope, only one child and I never wanted more kids. She’s awesome though, so I won the jackpot in that respect.
johnbr@reddit
I remember seeing a TV news clip a few years back where a 45-yo woman had just become a great grandmother. three generations of 15-yo women getting pregnant.
eugenesnewdream@reddit
I wouldn’t call them 15yo “women” but 15yo girls. I mean it happens, but they’re still kids! And yeah I’m 48 and can’t imagine being a grandma at this age, let alone a great-grandma. My kids are only 14 and 11.
marugirl@reddit
Yup, I knew a couple who had a kid at 15, that kid had a kid at 15 making the couple 30yr old grandparents. Their grandchild had a kid at 20 making them great grandparents the year they turned 50. And I thought it was rough becoming a grandparent at 41
snark_maiden@reddit
Good lord. I didn’t even have my first child until I was 31
tracknod@reddit
We had this little girl that came to play with my little one and one day she said that she had to leave because she was going to see her Great Great Granny. My partner and I looked at each other like and laughed.
Well, turns out that little brat was right. Her mum mom had her at 14, grandmother had her mum at 15, and their great grandma had grandma at 14. That kinda finalized her never coming back over. lol
Blankbetty11@reddit (OP)
Good lord! GGG isn’t even retired yet!
Slinkystonermom@reddit
My friend was a grandma at 33. I got my tubes tied that year. F 50
hocfutuis@reddit
Not me, but one of my SiL became a great grandma at 55, her daughter was 35, and the son had just turned 16. No idea about the girl involved, but I think she was 14/15.
There are reasons my husband was insistent I moved away from them after he died...
Christavanzyl@reddit
I had my son at 19 i have 4 grandkids at 51
Kristylane@reddit
I worked with a woman who was a 32 year old grandmother, so if they kept that pattern going, great grandma at 48.
I-Am-All-Me@reddit
I was a teen mom. I'm not 50 yet. My mother, son, and grandkids protested together, 4 generations!! Plus, when they call out Granny in the stores, I love the looks from other people when they realize its me 😁