Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To be annoyed when my friends children butt in on our conversations..........

79 replies

FLIER · 12/06/2007 12:51

..........and for them not be told to wait while adults speak?.....so I get ignored....and we never seem to finish a conversation.....It happens all the time.
and its really pissing me off now.

Please tell me its not just me.

OP posts:
soapbox · 12/06/2007 12:55

I find the converse actually. I find some adults can be really rude to young children who wait patiently to speak and then get talked over the top of by an adult who can't interupt their stream of consciousness for even a minute, while the child has their say!

MamaG · 12/06/2007 12:55

YANBU if they are old enough to know better. Tis just manners,

My DD is 7 and doesn't interrupt, just stands a foot away staring at me with her mouth moving silently

HuwEdwards · 12/06/2007 12:53

depends on their age - when they're toilet training, they have to tell you and you need to listen. Older children, agree, should be told to wait - so they stand right next to you staring at you, waiting for you to draw breath .

musicianswidowAKAmumofmonsters · 12/06/2007 12:53

yes you kind of are. depending on the age of the children they won't be able to wait v long. my 4 yo kniows that you say excuse me but even then he can't wait v long. Hes not being rude, hes just trying to join in. can you not organise a child free day with your friend?