to never ask this question ever again?

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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?

Pupils at school are always asking me how old I am. It freaks them right out when I say 742, completely straight faced. Ocassionally one of them believes me .

My brother was driving me and DS son home one night and telling DS about the road we were on used to be used by people with horses and carts before cars were invented and DS said "is that what you used to do then?" - still makes me laugh

I work in schools a lot.
Some of the teachers are ACTUALLY half my age :(

Oh dear I would say yanbu to never have that conversation again!
I've just celebrated my 29th birthday and DS said 'mammy are you as old as daddy now? Daddy is very old isn't he mammy' DH is 34

It's depressing isn't, Norks. I'm a TA and I'm old enough to be their mother.

I like the shorter=younger idea. I am 4ft11.

I have a relative whose ds has no 'filter' as such and we all cringe at the things he says. On my wedding day in a room full of guests
Boy: 'How old are you?' Very loudly to me
'Its rude to ask a lady her age' a good friend replied on my behalf
Boy: 'No but how old are you? Because I think you are too young to be getting married'
Me: dead chuffed 'Aw really...'
Boy: 'Yes because you still have spots like (names his teenage brother)'

I let out an embarrassed laugh and decided somebody would not be getting my cake!

DS2 told me last night that I should stop getting older now and go into reverse "because I don't want you to die of old age so soon". I nearly told him wine keeps me young...

DS1 keeps asking me about the 'olden days'.

Whenever they do history in school he'll come home and ask me 'When you were little did you have cars/phones/electricity' I'm 29 fgs!

Although he seriously depressed myself and his OT one day, she's the same age as me and he told us all about how they were learning about the old fashioned money in school and asked us 'Did you use the old money when you were younger?'.... We both answered yes and felt instantly old. When we were kids the 'old' money was shillings, which predated our schooldays by about as much as the Punt predates ds1's, and we called that the old fashioned money and thought only ancient people had ever seen it. And now ds1 thinks Euros are proper money and the Punt is something from 'the olden days'.

Oh and ds2 keeps telling me 'You're the best mommy in the universe and you'll still be the best even when you're dead'.

He says the 'even when you're dead' bit far too excitedly for my liking

These stories made me laugh. But I think all adult are old to children.

When I was a child in my infants' school, as it was called in those days, I had a lovely teacher called Miss Ladyman who I really loved. She was very softly spoken and sweet and kind and to my childish mind, quite old,

Several years later when I was a young adult I met her again. She was still exactly as I remembered her, still just as pretty and softly spoken and, I realized, had probably only been about 23 when she taught me.

When DS was about 4 we were walking by the playground (for infants) at dusk and I saw a bunch of 13-14 year olds on the climbing frame and wondered absently, "Now why are those boys out on the climbing frame so late?" DS blinked, eventually asked in alarm: "Do you mean those men?" Said DS is now 13. I remind him of this periodically. Also DH. Aldi self.