Parent or grandparent, who can tell?

Luckygirl3

Callistemon21

Luckygirl3

I once went to Chepstow Races with my DD (who, to be fair, is quite short) and my SIL. They offered SIL and I adult tickets and a child's for our "daughter"!

I hope she got in for half-price ?
Mind you, if they saw her drinking alcohol they might wonder!
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Well - to my horror - she insisted on telling them she was an adult and therefore it all cost more! Silly girl!

I hope you weren't paying!!

I never make assumptions about parental or other relationships ever since I remarked to DD's new school friend "oh it's nice that your granddad is bringing you to school sometimes". Yup, he was her Dad. But in fairness,her mum was very young and her dad was only 2 years younger than his MiL, her other grandmother

I was 47 when my first grandchild was born and a lot of people assumed I was her mother.
Now I am a great grandma I get mistaken for GGCs grandmother, but I have never really been solo with them, I have not got the energy at nearly 78 to run around after two small boys.

Callistemon21

Luckygirl3

I once went to Chepstow Races with my DD (who, to be fair, is quite short) and my SIL. They offered SIL and I adult tickets and a child's for our "daughter"!

I hope she got in for half-price ?
Mind you, if they saw her drinking alcohol they might wonder!
???

Well - to my horror - she insisted on telling them she was an adult and therefore it all cost more! Silly girl!

mokryna

I did say to one little girl ´Look your grandfather has come to collect you’. I was told ‘It’s my father’.
Another girl, a teenager, told me that she worried at night because her father was so old and thought he could have a heart attack at any time.

That little girl could have been me I hated having an older dad , he was 54 when I was born , and he was not a fit older dad either . I vowed never to marry someone many years older than myself and I stuck to it . A closed relation is to be a mum at 46, thanks to egg donation ,my family had left home by the time I was that age . I do not envy her .

I look every bit of my 69 years but my daughters all look young. I was visiting my middle daughter ( age, mid- thirties ) when a visitor at the door asked if her mother was in. She said " She is, but this is my house, and the small child by my side is my son..
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I’m doing a ‘death clean’ and sorting through old photographs and it’s startling to see how people look ‘old’ to me, even though they were still in their forties and fifties. In one photo my dad looks about forty, but he was only 21! My Nana was two years younger than I am now when my sister got married and, in spite of wearing a very trendy (at the time) trouser suit, she looks considerably older than I do.

We all look young ?

Kate greetings to your dd, but they were being nice to you, not nasty to her. You both look young. Hooray.

Well silverlining that person obviously had poor eyesight. Our daughter is 51 and is considering Botox as people keep asking her if she's the mother of her friends. I think she looks young for her age but she says that's because I'm her mum but I don't think so. She was miffed recently when she introduced me to someone and they said I didn't look old enough to be her mum. She took it that she must look old. She doesn't.

A few kind words from Grans wouldn’t come amiss by the way
It’s lonely being the ‘only one ‘ on the thread who at 27 clearly looked an old crone.
Kate sympathies, but at least you are some years older than your sister.
My friend was older than me yet still taken fir my daughter. Oh how she loved that.

Luckygirl3

I once went to Chepstow Races with my DD (who, to be fair, is quite short) and my SIL. They offered SIL and I adult tickets and a child's for our "daughter"!

I hope she got in for half-price ?
Mind you, if they saw her drinking alcohol they might wonder!
???

I once went to Chepstow Races with my DD (who, to be fair, is quite short) and my SIL. They offered SIL and I adult tickets and a child's for our "daughter"!

I haven't been mistaken for my twin GC mum. But on many occasions when pushing them in their pram. People were astonished how they resembled me. They would say we looked like triplets I was so proud. With their hair red and very curly mines snowy now but the likeness remains.

No chance of me being mistaken for my GC s mummy!! Oh how I wish !

I had old parents, well, old back then, would not be considered old nowadays, Mum was nearly 41 when I was born, Dad nearly 45.

Although lovely parents, I always wished they were younger, like other mums and dads seemed to be.

Had my two children at 21 and 23, didn’t want to be an elderly mum myself.

Now with 5 G/C ranging from 19 to 14, find many of my contemporaries just starting down the G/P road.

Nope, never. 56. Look my age, although not older. DGS is 4. No need me ever assumes I'm his mum.

I was mistaken for my granddaughters mum a few weeks ago.I decided to take it as a compliment and like SueDonim it made my day!

I agree BlueSky Never assume. I was out with my sister once and she met someone she knew. This person looked at me and said 'You must be her mum'. I am 9 years older than my sister!

Sue
Similar situation, when my youngest started school she became friends with a little boy, one day the mum asked me if I was L … s mum, turned out they had been friends at school!
I admit, when I’m out with my grandchildren, I’m often confused about mums and grans, it’s very often difficult to be sure, even more so with men I think.
One of my cousins has nieces and nephews older than her, people always assumed my auntie was her gran. She was a very unexpected baby, but my auntie lived to over a hundred, so my cousin had her mum around for a long time.

It actually happened to me 3 times, another time in a shop the assistant pointing to my friend said that my ‘daughter’ looked lovely in something she had tried on. My friend is 4 months older than me.
I probably started old and got younger as the years passed by. I look about 16 now. You will have to take my word for it,

I think it`s down to the fact people are having children alot later on in life these days.

Silverlining ?

I did say to one little girl ´Look your grandfather has come to collect you’. I was told ‘It’s my father’.
Another girl, a teenager, told me that she worried at night because her father was so old and thought he could have a heart attack at any time.

Oh, I forgot to say, I’ve been mistaken for my grandchildren’s mum before now, too. Very shallow, I know, but it made my day.