When My Parents Were My Age, They Were Old Or, Who Are You Calling Middle-Aged?

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ISBN: 9780684802893 | 0684802899
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Copyright: 5/10/1995

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From Simon & Schuster, When My Parents Were My Age, They Were Old is Cathy Crimmins' commentary on reaching middle age.

Relax, in fact, slip into your relaxed-fit jeans and join 76 million of us as we stumble, lurch, and trip our way through middle age as it's never been done before.

Welcome to the Relaxed-Fit Years, or What, Me -- Middle-Aged?	p. 1
Checklist: Signs That You Might Be Halfway Up That Stairway to Heaven	p. 5
Don't Trust Anyone over Sixty: Once Classic Symptoms of Encroaching Maturity and How Our Generation Has Rehabbed Them	p. 6
When Does the Pepsi Generation Lose Its Fizz? A Meditation	p. 8
Passage du Jour: Mommy Nearest	p. 9
Hell, No--We Won't Go ... People Who Were Born Old (Not Like Us)	p. 10
Aging Boomer Gods and Goddesses: The New Pantheon	p. 11
Celebrity Activities for This Awkward Phase	p. 12
Ask Miss Denial Q and A	p. 13
From Hipsters to Midsters: How Did We Get Here So Fast?	p. 14
The Boomer Achievement Test (BAT): Take the Test of Time	p. 16
Great Moments in the New Middle Age	p. 16
Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned at My Twentieth High School Reunion	p. 26
The Body Politic: Health, Fitness, and Sex	p. 27
Your Health Concerns Q and A	p. 29
You and Your Changing Body	p. 31
The Forces of Nature: Meet the Bod Squad	p. 31
Body Checklist: Vital Signs That You're Definitely Mature	p. 33
Passage du Jour: Clairol Goes Criminal	p. 34
The Physical Disadvantages of Being Cool	p. 35
A New Body Vocabulary	p. 36
Passage du Jour: Butterflies Are Free	p. 37
Future Boomer Health Problems	p. 38
One Pill Makes You Smaller ... Products We'd Like to See in the Drugstore	p. 40
Embarrassed by the Light: A Maturing Young Woman's Guide to Makeup	p. 41
A New Body of Classics	p. 42
The Sexual Evolution	p. 43
Twin Peaks? We Wish	p. 44
Are You on Top? Sex Peak Quiz	p. 44
Make Love and War: Sex and Dating Q and A	p. 45
Checklist: Signs That You Have Reached Sexual Maturity	p. 47
I'm a Believer--Our Generation's Love Affair with Serial Monogamy	p. 48
Stuck in the Middle with U: Catalog of Continuing Education Courses	p. 49
Not Flossing as a Subversive Activity, or Living Dangerously Now	p. 52
The Days of Our Lifestyles ... Food, Clothing, Shelter, and Entertainment	p. 53
Life Terms	p. 55
Lifestyle Porn: The Concept	p. 57
How to Know If You Are Reading a BoomerMag	p. 59
Menu Specials	p. 60
Come on Baby, Light My Gas Barbecue ... Food and Entertainment Q and A	p. 62
New, Lite Programming on the Food Channel	p. 64
Passage du Jour: It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To	p. 65
CineMid: Comfy Little Movies We Love	p. 66
Entertainment Figures, Then and Now	p. 67
Video Dating, Midlife Style	p. 68
Rolling Credits Life Quiz	p. 70
Clothing Allowances	p. 74
Checklist: Clothing Signs That You Are Growing Up	p. 75
The Tropical Salad of CocoonWear	p. 76
The Closet	p. 77
Clothing Q and A	p. 78
Clothing Rules and Advice That Our Generation Has Made Obsolete	p. 79
Passage du Jour: Kids R'N'T Us	p. 80
In Our Home and Car Cocoons ... Radio and TV	p. 81
What We Like on the Radio Now	p. 81
It's Still Rock and Roll to Me	p. 82
Things That Are Now Dangerous, or Immoral Acts That Were Normal When We Were Growing Up; Things That Are Cool Now That Weren't Cool Twenty-Five Years Ago	p. 83
I'm Not a Grown-up, But I Play One on TV	p. 84
Jingles We'll Dread Hearing	p. 86
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Vacation Thing	p. 87
Tune In, Turn On, Wig Out ... Crisis Management: A Matching Quiz	p. 90
Midlife Crisis Vacation Packages	p. 91
Midlife's Little Instruction Book	p. 92
Grown-up Stuff: Time, Memory, Money, Work, Etc.	p. 95
Time Is on Our Side (?)	p. 97
Turn, Turn, Turn	p. 98
Passage du Jour: Anniversary d'Amour	p. 99
The Time-Wasters of Midlife	p. 100
The Time-Savers of Midlife	p. 101
Your Random Access Memory	p. 102
Memory Q and A	p. 104
Midlife One-Day Personal Finance Seminars	p. 105
Finances: Secrets We'd Like Revealed	p. 106
Midlife Insurance Policies	p. 108
Checklist: Working Signs That You Are Officially a Grown-up	p. 110
Career Q and A	p. 111
Enjoying Your Second Adolescence	p. 112
Hope I Die Before I Get Old (Not!)	p. 115
Future Schlock: Hip Products for Gray Boomers	p. 117
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