to never ask this question ever again?

[KoalaWithAGrudge]

One of my 4yo's best friends was around today. Halfway through, I got them some juice and a snack, and he asked, politely and quietly, 'how old are you?'. I laughed and asked him how old de HE think I was?

He thought about it carefully.

'60?'

AIBU to never, ever ever ask young children how old they think I am, when I'm not wearing make up and have had no sleep?

Haha, that's harsh. I'm assuming you are nowhere near 60?!

It's not just children though. I am terrible with ages and put my foot in my mouth when a colleague asked that very question. I aged him by 15 years. I've never lived it down.

oh dear. It was asking for trouble though, wasn't it?

My eldest asked me if television had been invented when I was a child.

Ha ha ha ha - I was in assembly one day when the local mp had come to speak to the children. He foolishly asked the school the same question and one of the infants suggested that they thought he was 100!

Also, when my DD was little and said I could have a turn in her Little Tykes car, I foolishly said "I don't think my bottom would fit, do you?" and she replied "No....it's HUGE"

Said in front of my v slim friend too. Thanks DD.

It's worse when adults do it though. I once took a prescription into the chemist for my baby daughter. The assistant took it, glanced down then said 'do you pay for your prescriptions?' I looked baffled and said 'no look it's for my daughter' and pointed at the age on the form.
'Oh of course' she said 'it says 44 weeks not 44 years. My mistake'.

I was 28.

But, no yanbu to never ask that question again, especially of a child. They are programmed to give you the answer you would least like to hear.

Are you tall?
When I had a reception class we asked the children ( for our own amusement to say who was the oldest among the teachers and TAs.
They unanimously voted the youngest and tallest as the oldest

Taller=older sounds like classic child logic. After all, they grow taller as they grow older.

I have had age estimates from 13-100 and everywhere in between. Don't take it personally. To a 4 year old, you are just 'grown up'. They may know one grown up's age (maybe a family member had a 60th birthday?) so think as you are also grown up, you must be about the same age.

I'm 27. Tall-ish (5ft11) but shorter than his parents.

My son is 4. He thinks I'm 8

The other day my nephew turned to me and said "Auntie, are you 16?"
Of course I said "Yes dear I am!" (not 29 at all honest .. but look 35 on a good day sadly.)
I love my nephew.

I remember a story from some letters page or summat.

'granny, my friend asked me how old you were but I didn't tell him because I couldn't remember whether you were 49 or 94'.

My DC refer to my childhood as 'the olden days'

Sorry OP but

I still remember the time a friend of my dc asked me a question. I can't remember what the question was but he prefaced it by saying, "Scareful, you know why you're old..."

I was 28 at the time

A friend in his 90s was recently asked in a very serious manner by a 5 year-old if he'd been a Roman Centurion....

DH and I are the same age, DSD mum is ten years younger.

When she was younger DSD asked me if I remembered WW2.

On driving past my old school once, I said to DSD 'ooh look, that's where I went to school', her reply? an incredulous... 'and its still THERE????'

Whenever a child asks me how old I am, I say 21. I am actually 37, but they always believe me whatever age I say. Then my eldest reminds them that she's 11, so I can't be 21!

My dd said last year she wished I were 3 so I could play with her all day at nursery...I cried.

My dd thought you got taller as you got older - until you are so tall you hit the ceiling and thats when you die.

A teenager once said she 'didn't think I was that old' which had me chuffed until she followed it up with 'probably about the same age as my mum' which took the wind out of my sails a little as I was still on maternity leave after having my son who was about 5 months at the time. Then she said 'My mum's really young though' and I thought I was back in the game. Then it turned out her mum was younger than me, which made me feel old all over again even though it was technically a compliment. Kids - they have so many ways of making you feel old...

I was watching something on tv a few weeks ago and ds2 (6) asked me how long ago it had happened. I replied that I wasn't sure, but about 300years ago. His response... "oh wow, does Great Grandad remember that?"
Me. "umm no darling, great grandad isn't even 80 yet"
Ds "yea but he was alive during the war!!"

Ds1 used to think the whole world was black and white when my mum was a child, he couldn't get his head around the fact that it was only the tv and photos

Both ds' refer to my child hood as the olden days , yea coz the 80s and 90s were sooooo long ago!

Oh and my Auntie works in a pre school and a couple years ago, when asked, told a child she was 21 (she was in her late 40s). The child looked at her, and said "But Mrs x, if you were 1 you'd be taller" Auntie is 4ft 10

"Mummy, were there dinosaurs when you were little?"

Arrrgghhhh, a couple of years ago in a packed bus, my D?D asks me 'Mummy it's your birthday today, how old are you?'
to which I quietly respond, D?D replies 'What how old did you say?'
so I tell her '33'
she stops and looks at me and shakes her head saying 'No mummy I think you're wrong, you can't be 33, 3+3=6, I think you might be older than 6....I think you are.......... 100....!'
I swear the entire bus packed with rush hours commuters burst into laughter.

YANBU

"What was it like in the war Mummy'?

Ok, I know I'm am pretty old to be the mother of a nine year old but my parents were children during WW2.

DD and I were chatting about music in the car and I mentioned that we had a song we had on two different LPs.

"What's an LP". She says