We all age and as we age we tend to care less about semantics and political correctness and more about just conversing--just saying exactly is what is on our minds. This is all fine and dandy except when we are talking to our kids. Even though our parents age and we speak to them as adults do and they speak to us as adults as well, we are still their 'kids'.
Sometimes they forget to have the sensitivity that they should. Sometimes they forget that we still have feelings that can be damaged by what they say. I am here to say that we should offer them grace and forgive them without them even needing to know that we are doing that or that IF we took them seriously we would be hurt by what they are saying at that moment. Sometimes it is not worth the energy of trying to bring it to their attention and sometimes it is. We have to decide that on a case by case basis. The explanation and conversation to them can be lost and the significance of it lost just in the time and words that it takes to lay it out for them. Just to let it go is in many cases the best option. If you can see it with humor and with grace, then you have done yourself a service and by extension them as well.
Although that can be hard to see, that may eventually be us one day. Wouldn't it be nice if at that time our child afforded us the same grace? I think it would; at least it would be for me.