I'm 50 with 2 young kids. Reliving my childhood through them makes me feel young again, even if I have less energy than I'd like.

Courtesy of Ryan Crawley

My wife and I decided to have our first child when I was in my late 40s, and I knew what I was getting myself into. Before I was a writer, I was an elementary school teacher for more than a decade. I witnessed firsthand when an older parent would come into the classroom to pick up their child, and the rest of the students would mistakenly think it was actually their grandparent picking them up.