Grown up phrases

When you were a kid older people would always make references that you never really understood, and then they would say "You're too young to remember" or "That was before your time". While I was growing up I never really thought about change, or even that I would one day be able to turn to a child and say " You are too young to know about it".

The other day at work my boss and I were discussing how independent and smart one of the girls is. Her name is Hayden and she is 5 years old going on 30. She loves helping us with the kids. She talks to them, plays with them, stops them from making bad decisions, cleans up after them, and even tell us that she worries about them. We have tried to tell her many times not to worry about the kids. That it's our job to do so, and she needs to be a kid, but no matter how many times we say it she still does it. She has a natural instinct to help and care for the younger kids. 

With that said I gave her the nick name "Matilda". Like the movie that came out in 1996 about a young girl who's parents left her home alone all of the time, and she was left to fend for herself. She turned out to be a smart little girl with a wonderful and caring personality, and she was very independent. Hence the reason I gave the nick name. One after noon Hayden asked me why I called her Matilda. I tried to explain to her that there was a movie and she reminded me of the girl in the movie. She replied with "Oh I don't know that movie" and in turn I replied "The movie is from when I was a kid. You're too young to know of it". After that came out of my mouth I turned in shock with wide eyes and said to my boss " I never though I would ever say that in my whole entire life!" We both laughed so hard and I made a comment about how I must be old.

I catch my self all too often these days, saying little comments that I use to hear from adults when I was a kid. I guess it can only mean one thing. I'm all grown up! So this is what being an adult feels like....