Is it unreasonable to expect that DD speaks to me like an adult

I think that's rather sweet!

(but patronising?)

Aren't DDs just great glass when they perform you remember back to when they where little and what your right hand was for ? mine had a few slaps on the leg for being cheeky and I don't mind admitting it to anyone.Just walk away and count to 10 and wait for the apology.

My friend told me that she had a "show down" with her daughter in town because when they were crossing the road her daughter took her by the hand and led her across the road.!!
My friend is only 62 and a young 62 at that !

Too much information. Or three mile island!

No glass YANBU. I would be most annoyed with my DD if she treated me like that. My family are very respectful.

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TMI?

Sons do it, I assure you! But they are also protective.

That's the case with me. Son gives me withering looks and sighs a lot...! He IS protective though! DD1 says 'Mu-um!' a lot, and DD2 tends to give advice (??!) Eldest granddaughter (22), explains things really well - more than necessary, really!

Absolutely!

My son does not do it he is quite protective with me, don't know what is it about Daughters that they seem to think that once a Mother reaches a certain age she looses everything she once knew and becomes senile.

Oh yes, sons do it.. They can be protective AND patronising at the same time.

I wish!

Possibly by then I won't care, jeni!

I don't think sons do do it, petallus. They seem to be more protective towards their mothers...(sigh!)

I have decided that I am putting her up for adoption

You'll love it!

All of the above the same with me and my DDs. I'm so pleased I'm not the only one. I too am inclined to just zip.

I bet sons don't do it.

Oh, no! That means I'll have two more of them on my case in about 15 years...

My senior GD (20) has started now!

They are just so overwhelmingly gorgeous aren't they? (the offspring rather more so than our DC!)

We do, jeni, we do!

I think they are all like that these days. We are the ignorant generation.
But we still love them, and adore their offspring.
Don't we?

jeni and Anagram - thank goodness I'm not the only one!

If I forget something she's told me, DD can get quite tetchy! Probably scared I'm losing it and she'll end up having to look after me in my dotage - that'd teach her!

That's the problem I have with both of mine! They gabble! My antique brain doesn't process at that speed and I keep sayin what? They accuse me of being deaf! I'm not! My hearing is still excellent! So there!