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Have you ever told them that you don’t like it?
Once you do, if they persist, you can say “I don’t mean to be rude, but did you hear me say I don’t like when people do that?”
You can follow that with a compliment :you have the wisdom that years bring, and I appreciate your caring, but your advice is actually hurting me instead of helping me. I prefer to hear what I’m doing right, not what I’m doing wrong.”.
You could also say “I’m really good with asking for advice, but not so good with hearing advice. Let’s make a deal that when I need advice I’ll ask you, but otherwise you won’t offer it” then, if they start to break it, you can say “we made a deal…”.