Clean riddles

If a boy is 12 and his brother is 13, how is the 12 year old older than his brother?

What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?

What kind of ties can you never wear?

The thunder comes before the lightning; the lightning comes before the clouds. The rain dries everything it touches.

It regulates our daily movements, but it feels no interest in our lives. It directs us when to come and go, but does not care if we pay attention. What is it?

Tall I am young, short I am old. While with life I glow, wind is my foe. What am I?

I'm a fruit. If you take away my first letter, I'm a crime. If you take away my first two letters, I'm an animal. If you take away my first and last letters, I'm a form of music. What I am I?

What is as light as a feather but impossible to hold for several minutes?

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes And yet never grows?

What gets shorter when you close your arm?