20 Kids Who Made Adults Realise How “Old” They Are

Despite the years under our belts, we still feel young at heart even after we’ve had kids and started our own families. So it can feel brutally shocking when our spawn reminds us that we are old, whether through an innocent comment about how The Lion King came out 30 years ago or mention ‘the 19-hundreds’ as if it was the era of the dinosaurs.  Indeed, there’s a whole new generation in town and one viral thread on X is where parents get together to discuss with as much humour as possible all the little ways how the kids keep reminding us that we are actually rather obsolete fossils at this point.   More info: X

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Image source: PaigeKellerman Luis Hernandez Dauajare: Robin Williams as Peter Pan: "Are you related to Mighty Mouse" Random internet reviewer: "Who is Mighty Mouse" Me [screaming internally]

#2

Image source: mcdadstuff Peppy : Ahh the late 1900’s ,good times

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Image source: DomesticGoddss "Disembodied voice" : Or pound symbol

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Image source: outsmartedmommy A girl : My mom was 40 when she had my brother. She was sited in the school newsletter as having been part of PTA for 21 years. I always joked my parents were Vulcans. Every 7 years, they had a kid. 10/56, 1/64, 12/70.

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Image source: thedad Zoey Rayne: I can top that. I was teaching preschoolers about dinosaurs, and a three year old asked me if I was there when the asteroid killed them all! I'll give her points for thinking I could somehow survive a mass extinction event.

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Image source: Cheeseboy22 Ace: Well yeah, he's got a point.

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Image source: Six_Pack_Mom ILoveMySon: Poor child will never know the joy of checking the coin slot and actually finding money.

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Image source: GrantTanaka WindySwede: *average age (≠ maximum age 'back in the days') ?

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Image source: sarcasticmommy4 Cecilie Hammershøy: Or the movie going from the expensive to the more affordable category

#11

Image source: thedad Kyra Heiker: I remember when MTV first aired...

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Image source: PetrickSara Astro: I love telling people that I was born in the 1900s (1992)

#16

Image source: thedad cadena kuhn: Apparently Pog means cool now. I told my daughter every time she says it I want to throw a slammer at her

#17

Image source: thedad Midnight (she/her): I mean- they're not wrong . . .

#18

Image source: beingyelisa MotherofGuineaPigs: Oh, you mean cursive

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