to wish ds1 would stop calling my childhood "the olden days"?

[sleepyhead]

"Mum, did they not have soft play back in the olden days when you were wee?"

I'm 40 ffs! Although I don't think soft play had actually been invented in the 1970s. We just had "play".

Way to make me feel oooooold ds1.

DD once asked if carrots had been invented when I was her age (she was about 3 or 4 at the time)

I remember my Granny hooting with laughter at me because I'd found some photos of her and my Grandpa when they were in their thirties and I'd put them in an envelope and written 'Old People And Ancestors' on the front.

can't wait for DD to make classic comments like this!

DS asked was I around when Jesus was born
Atheist DH didn't know whether to laugh or be mad

I am early 30s and once asked my mum if they had colour tv before I was born

OTOH, my early 20s DSis was totally outraged to discover that my mum hadn't had a computer growing up. She literally couldn't understand how you could live without one........

Young people today, etc!

Fellatio 'old people and ancestors' is fucking hilarious I hope your family still make fun of you about that!!

DS had a project this year (Yr5) and his teacher had asked them to interview their grandparents about what life was like during/just after the war

We are not a young family and both my parents are in their early sixties but who on earth has 'memories' from their own early/infant years to pass on. Surely not that many 10 year olds have 80+ grandparents do they?

I thought DD asking me what it was like in the war was bad enough. At least she was talking 70 years ago not a couple of thousand or more!

Maybe they meant the Falklands war.

DS1 does this to me too (he's 5). We were in the car the other day and he was messing with the electric windows, so I told him to pack it in or I'd lock them and then told him how you had to wind them down when I was a kid with a handle. His response to that was 'Yes, well Mummy that in the olden days' Are the 1980s the olden days? Perhaps they are

I've been asked if I had dinosaurs when I was little

It dawned on me recently that my Disney VHS collection is going to look like a museum piece to my future dc's. I'm only 24,that was a very sobering thought.

The look on my children's faces when they saw my old black and white TV (with 4 channels) was priceless!

Ds casually said mid convo a while ago " ...but you were around during the war!" i'm 43 yrs old.

Frisky - Werent you one of those kids in Jurrassic park?

A kid at school said once 'my sister was in your class in the olden days' It was 5 years ago!!

And I must stop calling them 'Record' shops....

but it is the olden days to them my ds 1 is gobsmacked that we had a black and white tv until I was 5 only three channels and no proper kids channels and also no computer ,he was also amazed when I told him how when I was at primary school I dropped a crisp packet in the playground and was smacked by a teacher this was late 70,s early 80 ,s ds1 is six I,m 40 in a few months

I have been asked by my dc if the olden days ( my childhood) was on black and white.

Also remember my little brother (15 yrs my junior) saying 'what are those?' about my old record collection, because he'd been born in the CD days and had never seen vinyl!

I must be from the same generation as Frisky. When DD was about four, she asked me what it was like before she was born, when there were dinosaurs & volcanoes.

My dad came and talked to my class of 6 year olds about growing up in the 40s/50s. They were very interested but also disappointed when he was unable to answer questions about what it was like having Victoria as the Queen.

I remember referring to my mum's childhood as 'the olden days'. She is a mere 24 years older than me and I was clearly being VVVU. Still, she was born in the forties and I was born in the sixties. It seemed a long time ago when I was five. For my DD who was born in 2006, it's as if my mother was born in the twenties. That was, incontrovertibly, THE OLDEN DAYS. Unfortunately, once you have a child you are part of their olden days for ever and ever (even if you are quite young). It astonishes me to think now that when I was referring to my mother's olden days she was under thirty and young by my standards. I still think she was born in the olden days, though. She went to school on a steam train and had to walk across a few fields to get to it.

Harum I remember doing the exact same thing to my mum. Given when I was 4 she was 26 she must have been a bit every single time.

I showed my DC a photo of the first mobile phones today.

They were about the phones we used in the olden days.