The starting point for investigation farther into the past would surely be the publication dates of two classic children's books by A. A. Milne: When We Were Very Young (1924) and Now We Are Six (1927). The "We" in the first title could arguably be interpreted as referring to the author in Queen Victoria mode, recalling his own childhood, although the fact that all of the main animal characters in the books are named after toys that Milne's son Christopher Robin Milne had as a child, that's a bit of a stretch. But the second title adopts a present-tense verb, and there can be no doubt that the person being referred to as "We" is the character Christopher Robin.
I did some additional research in a series of Google Books searches and turned up several early instances of what I (rather harshly) call "the infantilizing we." The earliest of them (so far) is from The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record (1910) [combined snippets]:
The health of the Book Trade is the health of every man in this room this evening. Gentlemen, as your fashionable medical attendant says, " How are we feeling tonight ? " (Laughter.) Pretty well, I hope. And I am sure we are all " delighted to hear it." (Laughter.)
So if you thought that the first use would probably turn out to involve a condescending adult speaking to a child, a condescending waiter talking to a diner, or a condescending medical staffer talking to a patient, you aren't wrong yet.
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