Tracey Kahn, a single mother by choice, gave birth at 49 and 51. But it wasn't until my mid-40s that I began to wonder whether parenting would pass me by. The worst thing was going straight into menopause the moment I stopped breastfeeding Eloise when she was 6 months old. But, looking back, parenting a baby and a toddler was a cakewalk compared to raising a tween and soon-to-be teen. "It was the same when I was at school," I'll tell Scarlett when she talks about cliques.

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