Guest post day: How old do your kids think you are?

Hello! I'm Liz from LivingwithKids.

I’m squatting here on Tara's blog (not literally, you know what I mean) because it’s Guest Post Day.

If you’re looking for the fabulous Tara, you can find her over at mine.

Meanwhile...

How old do your kids think you are?
My six-year-old nephew Ben told me yesterday that he thinks I’m 20 while his granny – my mum - is 21.

Obviously this is incredibly flattering, if a physical impossibility, especially as he knows his own mum is 41. Meanwhile my friend Karen’s son, who is seven, thinks she’s 28 (she’s 44) but that the Queen is just a year older at 29 (she’s actually 84. I promise you Karen looks much younger).

It must be brilliant to live in a world where all grown-ups are more or less the same age. Sadly, despite Ben’s fla

ttery, the bathroom mirror tells me the unpalatable truth every time I look in it and the number of anti-ageing products on the shelf is multiplying faster than bacteria.

Keeping my feet firmly on the ground is No 1 Son, who, ever the charmer, put me at a year older than my real age (no, I’m not telling you what that is).

But I dare you to ask your kids how old they think you are - you never know, you might get a pleasant surprise.

Or a nasty shock!

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