Given how many of my friends have children not much older (and some younger!) than my grandchildren, I would say that is just ignorance on society in general. But, yes, sports parents are a whole different breed. My son played sports and piano and there was a marked difference between them, even between soccer parents, lacrosse parents, and basketball parents. I didn't fit in with any of them! LOL!
Dan, I don't think it is an assumption of youth, though there may be some of that. But you are statistically much older than most guys who have a daughter your age. I had the opposite problem. My (step) daughter was conceived when I was 14 and born when I was 15. The looks I used to get at the (Christian) retirement community when I was 21 and told them I had a 6 year old daughter!
I suggest you not only get used to it, but have FUN with it. Start talking about knee replacements and colonoscopies with them, watch the young parents squirm.
Given how many of my friends have children not much older (and some younger!) than my grandchildren, I would say that is just ignorance on society in general. But, yes, sports parents are a whole different breed. My son played sports and piano and there was a marked difference between them, even between soccer parents, lacrosse parents, and basketball parents. I didn't fit in with any of them! LOL!
Dan, I don't think it is an assumption of youth, though there may be some of that. But you are statistically much older than most guys who have a daughter your age. I had the opposite problem. My (step) daughter was conceived when I was 14 and born when I was 15. The looks I used to get at the (Christian) retirement community when I was 21 and told them I had a 6 year old daughter!
I suggest you not only get used to it, but have FUN with it. Start talking about knee replacements and colonoscopies with them, watch the young parents squirm.
Oh man that's a great idea!