To think this is so wrong but also quite funny at the same time

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We went to DHs aunt and uncles for DHs uncles birthday last night for a meal. His uncle is known for being very uptight and anti kids so we did not take DS (he is also a bit poorly after having chicken pox) so my mum came to look after him.

Any way we got there and there were two tables set out. One for adults and one for kids. Turns out the kids table for us and DHs other cousins some of whom are married some of whom are not but we are all over the age of 30!!!

We were told to not make a fuss by DHs mum as we know how the uncle is so we all sat on this kids table trying not to laugh. While the “real growns ups” sat together. We all got smaller potions as well. We did takeaway on the way home.

So wrong yet I keep laughing when I think about it and DH and I laughed all the way home. God knows where he would have put DS if we had brought him. Maybe in the garage

So was it older adults then younger adults at the ‘kids’ table?

My Mum still treats my younger brother as a child, and expects other family members to do the same. I hosted an informal family party/BBQ this Summer. There were quite a few actual children coming, and I know that many of them would not be keen on BBQ food or would be hungry before it was ready so I made a snack box for each of them. Each box had a name sticker in it (to help manage allergies/dietary needs of some of them) and Mum seemed genuinely confused not to be able to find one with brother's name on it. When she asked me why, the answer 'because he's 46' didn't go down well!

Could be worse. We went to a wedding and dh and I weren't put at the kids table. We were mighty put out, all the cousins at one table and were sitting with the aunties and uncles.

I’d struggle to find this even remotely funny. Grown adults trying to appease some dictatorial old duffer so he doesn’t take out his anger on his wife? Hilarious? No.

I still have bad memories of visiting a certain uncle & aunt as a child. We would arrive there to see delicious food being laid out, and look forward to dinner. What we didn't realise that this was intended only for the adults; we would be served our beans & toast at 5pm then moved out of the way so the grown-ups could enjoy their sit down dinner afterwards.

So maybe this was a 'thing' for some older generations. Never heard of it being extended to younger adults though.

Agree this is totally normal!

I think this is hilarious, OP, made me laugh (much needed in these dark days!).

I love the suggestions here that you should all have played up like young kids, food fights etc.

The kid’s kids table. With even smaller portions…

The smaller portions do seem to highlight that the uncle does still see them as kids rather than 'kids' ie next generation down

that’s the sort of thing that happens in my family

and that’s fine by me, makes me feel young still

I was once given a tumbler aged 25 at one cousins house and sat on the kids table …

I thought that it was completely normal until I realised that it meant the ‘kids’ weren’t sitting with their parents and had to sit with cousins and people who they may not actually know all that well if they live far apart. I think I’d expect to be sat near my immediate family rather than it be chosen by who was a similar age.

Aaand now I’ve just remembered that I did go to a memorial meal for my DH’s family member and there was a ‘cousins’ table (or maybe it was actually a kids table?)

I am from an Asian family. My mum and her generation in their eighties always refer to us all in our 50s and even 60s as the ‘young ones’. ‘You young people sit there’ etc. So I wouldn’t be laughing so much as it wouldn’t amuse me or be out of the ordinary for us I guess.