to think you should know when your own DC were born?

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Last night when I got home, DH told me about a conversation he had earlier with his mother. DH is the eldest of 3 sons, he's 53 and they were all born reasonably close together.

Apparently they had a conversation along the lines of how old was youngest son this year as it was his birthday last week, is he 50 now or was he going to be 50 next year. Apparently DH's dad couldn't remember either.

Now I know it's been approximately 50 years and you can't remember every detail, but surely you should know your own DC dates of birth?!

My dad was asked how I old I am by a colleague recently and he said about 24.
I've just turned 27!!

I can remember my brother and sister's d.o.b.s but not how old they are at any given moment.

If someone asks me their ages I have to work it out... every time.

In the process of getting divorced. Received STBXH financial paperwork and our son's name was spelt incorrect and his DOB was wrong.. . If he can't get it right at his age l can understand why those of an older generation can't

I'm in my 30's and often get my age wrong. Last time someone asked my age and I said about 38 and dd had to remind me that i am 36

Sometimes I can't remember the names of my DCs and mash them all together (as in Elizkath but with different names) but I know their birthdays.

I am very good at this with family members but not everyone is. I am just a dates and numbers person. It is always worth havnig and keeping birth certificates. I have a paper file and electronic file of them. My parents had 3 of their parents' birth certificates (and marriage certificates) too and I now have all 4. My father even kept his father's passport from the 1930s which I now have and a family burial plot record which lease lasts 500 years from about 1908.

I was really sad about my upcoming 38th birthday a few years ago and it completely made my day when I realised I was only 37...

DH never remembers the children's ages or their DOB very easily. He was sorting out DS's Oystercard over the summer and it took him about thirty seconds to get DS's details correct. Just don't think most men store the family essential details in the same way that mothers do .

My dad could never remember the right combination of me and middle sister. Our birthdays are one month apart, and one day apart so he could never remember sept 10/11 and october 10/11. He used to check the commemerative plates in their bedroom.

Draylon, you would have been 42 during the whole of your 43rd year. If you mean that you were actually 43, then you would have been in your 44th year. Because your first year is the one after you were born, so the one after your first birthday is the second year of your life, and so on!

As part of my job I ask people of their kids date of birth. I'd say about 10% of people have to really think about it or can't remember at all.

My DH only knows his own age because he asks mine and knows he is a year younger.
My dad always thinks my birthday is the 27th not the 28th

I forgot my own age once - I mean, when you get past 30 and no one asks you anymore, it's easy to forget I still have to do the maths for my siblings as well.

I spent ages trying to remember the birth weights of my 4 DC - could only remember 3 of them, so I checked and Dc1 and 3 weighed the same I also registered Dc4 with the wrong DoB at the GP only find that DH had also registered him somewhere else with the wrong DoB. And he was only weeks old at that point, I think we'd both have to think about it now as well.