My DS has taken a dislike to old people

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And I find it amusing

We were on the bus last week and he started getting really agitated and fidgetty. When I asked him what was up he said "All the old people are making me sad" I asked him why and he said they all looked grey.

Then today I picked him up from pre-school and I said I needed to nip to Aldi to buy some bread. He started wailing in the street "ALDI IS STUPID AND FULL OF OLD PEOPLE"

Anyway, he seems not to like OAPS. Which I kind of feel bad about because he attracts old people like bears to honey. AIBU to chuckle when he gets OAP rage? He is only three, btw.

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That really made me laugh !

Oh and YANBU!

i'm with him on that one.

How funny!!!! When I was a kid I was scared of old ladies, I thought they were witches.

My mum and dad came to stay with us a couple of years ago and I out them up in DS's room and he came in with me. He went into his room in the morning and came out complaining it smelt of "old People".......

Out of the mouths of babes and all that

No, YANBU to find it funny, I had a chuckle reading your post - he sounds a very with it together 3 year old

but seriously he's probably having his first bout of existential angst (he's a wee bit young, usually around 4-5) when they realise that they are going to age and die too.

Reassure him that they are much older than him and that you (You, not him) are much younger than them - this is so he doesn't lump you in with the elderly

When my dd1 was 2-3 she would brace her arms and legs against the doorframe at dh's Grandma's house and shriek "Nononononono not Grandma she's all prickly (which was true). Luckily she was also somewhat deaf and had a box of jellybeans by her chair!

In the street she would point out OAPs "Look, a prickly lady like Grandma!"

But for some reason she loved going to my Gran's house where she would play "shops" with the veggie rack for hours.

But then, my Gran wasn't prickly!

DD won't eat at Toby Carverys because the meat is like the food/smell in old people's homes.
She's right.

I did wonder about that, Laurie. I've avoided having the death talk with him just yet, although I almost HAD to do it last week when he saw a picture of my nonna and asked where she was. :(

I remember not wanting to sit by old folk on the buses because they smelled funny. Might be a bit of that too!

Thats really funny, old people are grey in skin colour, tell hm it is because they are worn out.

'there all grey!' haha

Has he met my MIL ?

I don't think it's remotely funny or charming. I take it you're some way off grey hair yourself then?

Maryz-I thought the same thing. Why should old people have to put up with being mocked any more than any other sector in society? The kid needs to learn how to behave in public ASAP.

I have no idea whether I have grey hair or not. I've been dying it since I was sixteen.

He doesn't "mock". He is three. He has no idea that he's being a bit apart from me trying to reason with him that nanna is an old person (God, she would kill me) and nanna is very nice, isn't she?

There just seems to be no reasoning with him about it and he is such a sweet child. That's partly why I am a bit amused by it. It's so unlike him...

Not that old people are entirely innocent. Yesterday I saw an old man stuggling with shopping bags and pushing his bike. I asked if he wanted any help. He snapped back, 'I don't know you...piss off'. Charming!

Well, you've said you find it amusing and you chuckle - maybe that's why he's persisting?

There's a difference between heartily guffawing at him and turning away and having a little silent chuckle...

My DD has a habit of pointing at any lady, stranger or otherwise pointing at every lady who is greying ever so slightly and yelling "it's great grandma!" (who is 87)

Bloody embarrassing when it's the lady aged about 50 in M&S Bloody hilarious when it's MIL

How many old/older people does he know? Sometimes old people being practical strangers to small children means they can't relate to them and feel frightened. We used to visit great-grandparents every week and sometimes they'd have their friends around when we called in, and our kids got used to talking to older people. If grandparents or great-gps live away, little children might only interact with them a few times a year at most.

Going to church helps with getting children used to being with and chatting with older people (and people of all ages).