They say age is just a number. Perhaps so. But some numbers matter more than others.
Your teeth start coming in before you’re one. Most children lose their last baby teeth by age 12.
Five is when you toddle off to kindergarten — or, increasingly so if you’re a boy, it’s age six because boys, well, we’re slower.
Ten seems like a big age because you’re at last in double digits. It never occurs to you that someday you might make it into triple digits.
I kissed my first girl at age 12. Thank you, Judy Rotach.
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