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.

I also asked my mum if everything was black and white when she was a child.

Not just the television; the whole world!

Fair enough

Dh & I still say that we'll tape something off the telly (onto the V+ box). I can remember the excitement of getting our first VCR and then getting to watch some dire video that my dad rented from the video shop back when virtually nothing was available.

We went to visit my grandma yesterday and her face lit up when ds1 asked her about sailing to America on the Big Boat when she was about 9 (her family emigrated in about 1926 but came home again a few years later). She was able to talk about it in minute detail - not the olden days as far as she's concerned, although she's not so great at remembering what happened yesterday...

One of my yr4 pupils came to me with a query about his reading book. "What's a 'cassette recorder'?"

Just one child the class knew what one was.

I'm 28. DS is 11. He talks about his generation. It's still MY generation FFS .

He really makes me feel old. So does DP! He's 22. The pair of them make me feel ancient. FFS!

I'M TWENTYEIGHT!!!!! 28... fuck off with your 'that's well old that is' when referring to Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, The Faculty, and dial up internet!!!!

Wow Sleepyhead. That's lovely that your DS can hear her story.

When my 2 were younger I once told them we had school discos when I was their age, they both looked at bit blank so I explained a disco was a dance. There was a stunned silence then DS asked "What did you dance to in those days? Did the teacher play the piano for you?" Apparently I even predate pop music

DS (age 4) fondly tells total strangers that I am so old I will die soon, ''because that's what old people do you know."

When that advert came out a few years ago with the Thunderbird puppet dancing to Rhythm is a Dancer my niece really loved the song, and I said I used to like it when I was her age. "Oh my god, is that old!? And I bet you used to listen to it on, like, a tape and everything!"

The words 'a tape' were spoken in completely aghast tones.

It's lovely for me to hear them too.

She used to tell me stories about my mum and uncles when I was little. It wasn't until she got very old that she started talking more about her own childhood, so I'm hearing a lot of them for the first time too .

The Detective, you are not the same generation as your son, he s the next one, that s what it means.

I'm hardly in the 'past' generation though!

Lol at this thread.
My ds asked me if we had cars in the olden days.

Ive been asked if I was ever sent up a chimney!

MrsWeasley

A friend's youngest (aged seven) was horrified when we told him that "in the olden days", people had to get up to change the channel on the tv (no remotes), but that it was ok because there were only 3 channels to change between anyway: his face was like this !

I can remember asking my teacher what she did during the war. This would have been about 1993 and looking back she musn't have been day over 30. She was suitably horrified.