It seems like what defines middle aged has changed drastically through the years.
One way is youth, middle age is having babies, old age is when your babies have babies.
Now that we aren't having babies and living older does it really shift? I mean yes, there are 70 years olds that look great but they are still old right?
i think that may be too simplistic to categorize our current human lifecycle. I would suggest that the lifecycle would be more like this:
infancy, childhood, formative teenage, young adult, (weird age we are where we start to acquire and try to nest-build), middle age (where our children are in their teens and college, and we are at the height of our careers as experienced nest-maintainers), old age (beyond-nesting)...
perhaps 30 was middle aged when ppl lived to be 50 or 60, but i think currently 30 is still young today esp since we are just getting started at being serious at actually being an adult.
i also feel our sped-up, unsustainable world needs more slow earthiness as ballast, and our narcissistic culture needs more community to get people thinking about what might benefit us all, not just ourselves. i'm glad there's more movement in that direction these days.
the author is a big fan of john taylor gatto, and that's why i've heard of him. i can tell you more about my unschooling sometime if you're interested!
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btw, 30 is not middle aged. you're just mature for your age.
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One way is youth, middle age is having babies, old age is when your babies have babies.
Now that we aren't having babies and living older does it really shift? I mean yes, there are 70 years olds that look great but they are still old right?
0-25, 25-50, 50-75
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infancy, childhood, formative teenage, young adult, (weird age we are where we start to acquire and try to nest-build), middle age (where our children are in their teens and college, and we are at the height of our careers as experienced nest-maintainers), old age (beyond-nesting)...
perhaps 30 was middle aged when ppl lived to be 50 or 60, but i think currently 30 is still young today esp since we are just getting started at being serious at actually being an adult.
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i also feel our sped-up, unsustainable world needs more slow earthiness as ballast, and our narcissistic culture needs more community to get people thinking about what might benefit us all, not just ourselves. i'm glad there's more movement in that direction these days.
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hell yeah.
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http://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Liberation-Handbook-School-Education/dp/0962959170
the author is a big fan of john taylor gatto, and that's why i've heard of him. i can tell you more about my unschooling sometime if you're interested!
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