Comments on: Never Mind Your Age, What’s Your Developmental Stage???

By: The Rest of Our Life is Looking A Lot Longer Now | MidLifeBloggers

The Rest of Our Life is Looking A Lot Longer Now | MidLifeBloggers — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:03:18 +0000

[…] my post a couple of years back about our age versus developmental stage? Sunday’s New York Times had an article that cut right to the heart of it. We’re […]

By: byjane

byjane — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:05:23 +0000

Liz: I’ve read your blog and you definitely are in Generativity! I’d love to talk to you about writing about your adoption journey for us. Can you email me at byjane73(at)gmail.com…

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:21:58 +0000

I am definitely in Stage 7, and was starting to slide toward stagnation – especially the boredom part of it. When I looked at the rest of my life, all I could see was a whole lot of nothing – or worse, a whole lot of staying the same – and then, the end. I decided that it was up to me to create the life I wanted, and that there was no such thing as “too old” to keep reinventing myself. I’m working towards making a career change, and have started the process of adopting a child, and am blogging about the whole thing – so now I would say I’m in the Generativity part of Stage 7!

By: susan m

susan m — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:46:18 +0000

If that’s the case… I’m screwed.

😉

By: byjane

byjane — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:10:30 +0000

ah, isn’t the wisdom of maturity accepting the inconsistency of life????

By: susan m

susan m — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:51:57 +0000

Contradictory… absolutely! That’s one of the things that drives me nuts about midlife. I swear my thinking is more inconsistent now than in my younger years.

By: byjane

byjane — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:34:06 +0000

karen: I would say that your career move, etc. puts you smack in the middle of stage 7. Stage 8 is down the line; it’s the getting ready to go stage….

By: Karen at Midlife's A Trip

Karen at Midlife's A Trip — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:46:49 +0000

The term “baby boomers” really just refers to the generation of those of us ages 44-64 who were born in the mega-family growth period after World War II. It’s what they call us, but as the voices here point out, it doesn’t define us.

For me, at 57 years of age with an almost 33 year old son, “midlife” is what I answer to now. As for the Erikson stages, which I really relate to, I’m moving from Stage 7 into Stage 8 where I hope I can hang out for many years to come as a life coach for people like me and a blogger.

I love how blogging is giving me the freedom (that I’ve probably denied myself over the years) to say what I mean and mean what I say. It’s what my grandmother used to call one of the privileges of old age. Personally I’d call it a privilege of Stages 7+.