To find this really annoying?

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Several other mums that I know or am friends with are nice enough, but cannot hold a conversation with another adult without their children butting in over and over again.

If I'm talking and my kids butt in, I make them wait until I've finished my conversation, unless it's urgent. Some other mums will immediately halt the conversation, see to their child if it makes the tiniest sound, then back to the conversation, just get back on topic and child utters another word, so back to the children again, and so on, until the original subject of the conversation is completely forgotten.

Very irritating!

That's a really nasty, offensive thing to say Rinabean. The women that I know do it if we're in a group or whoever else they're talking to, it just seems to be their way.

YANBU. My ds is the centre of my universe, not everyone elses.

It does him no harm to remind him of this. I don't allow it.

Why is what adults are saying more important than what children are trying to say?

It all depends on the situation of course, but if I'm having a pretty mundane, shooting-the-breeze type conversation with a friend and one of the DC runs up breathlessly, bursting with what they want to say to me, I think that's far more important, and talking about mortgages or the weather can wait. In that case, I'll excuse myself politely from the adult conversation and attend to my child.

YANBU - I have a friend that will stop in the middle of a telephone converation to deal with her DC's even when she has phoned me! My DC's soon learnt not to interrupt me when I'm (shouts) ON THE PHONE!!!

Actually Grrrr...I can now hear in my mind the voice of a child I knew years ago. His words "Well you know what I think right?" were engraved in my brain years back...because that's what he used to pipe up with everytime his Mum tried to have a conversation

No-one apart from his Mum seemed to care what he thought

Scarlett, it's not about who's important, it's about teaching manners. I have no issue at all if a child waits for me to finish my sentence, waits politely and says 'excuse me' or another polite way of getting attention. It's the being cut off by ANYONE mid-stream that is rude. Especially when it happens over and over.

I've got a friend with grown-up children - not only does she do it with them, she also does it with her bloody i-phone! It drives me mad, and I find it very discourteous.

Because the child is interrupting the conversation that the adults are having, Scarlett. The adults are having the conversation before the child decides to butt in. It isn't really acceptable for adults to butt in so I don't see why it should be acceptable for children. Would you stop a conversation with one friend if another friend came up and started breathlessly bursting with something to tell you? Or would you think it rude that they'd interrupted?

Yes the phone thing annoys me too; someone I know will constantly interrupt a phone conversation to speak to her children or answer her mobile. I've started hanging up when she does that now. Very rude of her, and I'm not wasting my time listening to her having a conversation with someone else!

ladythumb....cutting convos short to reply to texts/check email etc is all very grrrrr!!!

I do it politely though - I do try and please everyone!

Think adults checking phones mid-conversation is far more impolite tbh - as if the RL person they're talking to is not interesting enough!

YANBU, this is a huge pet hate of mine and none of my friends except me seem to be trying to teach their toddlers that they shouldn't interrupt.

My best friend is probably the worse one for it and has very demanding children. Meeting up with our children is very irritating at times, cannot speak more that a couple of words without being interrupted. Grrrrrr.

If you find them annoying, why are you spending time with them? This doesn't have to be a problem if you really don't want it to be.

my DS1 knows not to interrupt unless he or is brother is bleeding or their is a part of him or his brother hanging off or its a matter of life and death.

Can't stand people who let their kids interrupt adult conversation or actively encourage small children to take part in adult conversations which they have no bloody business being involved in....

Oh God YANBU. My otherwise lovely friend does this with her DD, who butts in, usually to share something utterly irrelevant and long winded, like the plot of the latest film she's seen. And her mother thinks this is both charming and entertaining, and encourages her further by saying "That's fantastic, DD, can you say that in French/Serbo Croat/Tagalog?" etc and then "Listen everyone, she cam say it in French/Serbo Croat/Tagalog, isn't that fantastic? Sorry, you were saying about that funeral, do go on."
Makes me feel quite stabby.

how dare people go to soft play with their kids and actually play with their kids when their kids want 5mins to play with them, they should be having a conversation with their friend who it would be out of order to make the friend wait 5 mins, but its only a kid so the kid can wait.

and as for kids trying to join in with adult conversations, they should be taught not to get involved and should not be humoured imo, the best way to teach them how social interactions work is to ignore them, not to encourage them to talk more!!
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YANBU, it's extremely rude.

The parent who allows Tarquin to interrupt their conversations always appears a bit needy and desperate to me, as if they need to over-emphasise how important they and Tarquin are by their actions.

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