Reply To: Why isn’t there a word for your grown up kids?

CTLAWYER: Wow, well thank you! Adult Offspring sounds less appealing so I can be grateful for having to work with this.

Hmmm. Meno I hope my rights to the story are safe here… and I wrote it to show how it wouldn’t make sense, but that is after the details and stuff. I want to focus on X in the beginning, and only after learning more about the kids do I go into talking about them and their ages.

If I dated it from the start, like “20 years ago X took her first child Sam into the woods…” people would get the age but then that could date the story or maybe create distance with the reader. I want the reader to feel it in the now.

Thank you for making me think about it more creatively.