To want to tell my friend not to talk to our children during our phone conversation!!

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Everytime i talk on the phone with my friend she constantly lets her children interupt our conversation and it drives me crazy!
If i'm talking be in on the phone or in person my dc know it would be rude to interupt me,i can be on the phone for say 10 minutes with said friend and her children aged 7 and 10 will interupt about 5 or 6 times!!
you just can't have a conversation,she will tell them off but then answer their question anyway! aaarrrgggghhh aibu?

YANBU. She should lock them up in their bedrooms.

At that age they should know to be quiet. I do still have to remind ds1 (8) occasionally. He does know however that he will get nothing from me while on the phone.

Generally I will call friends when the DC are in bed though. It's much easier that way.

YANBU
My SiL is the same her Dcs are 6 and 9.
I call her when her Dcs are in bed or if I know they have gone out for the day.

This drives me insane.....

My sister does this. It drives me batshit crazy.

Not only that, but she doesn't have a landline, so I have to call her mobile - paying hundreds of pounds to listen to her cooing over her interrupting babies!! Grrr.

My sister's daughter was still doing this in her 20s. And my sister would actually answer her and hold a conversation with her. Every member of the family stopped ringing because of it.

AND she used to insist I talk to her children when they were very young. Now it's the grandchildren's turn to talk to me apparently. NO, no, no!

My mum does this but her "child" is 18.

me - "so I was thinking for ....."
mum - "Sarah, turn the oven off please... sorry Dorcas, what were you saying?"
me - "I was just thinking, for mother's day .... "
mum - "did you turn the oven off Sarah?, sorry Dorks I am listening, what were you saying?"
me - "ahem! for mother's ... "
mum - "oh Sarah! you've spilt orange all over the side!! oh ... she's spilt orange all over the side!! so, ummm, what were you saying?"

FORGET IT!

YANBU.

that level of interruption is unacceptable. Ring her at 11pm.

YANBU. My friend's DS (13) does this regularly. Last time I asked her to put him on the phone and told him to sod off til we'd finished talking as he was being rude. He did.

I shouldn't have to say it but he knows I'm not as soft as his mum.

Sorry tried to PM Dorcas S. Without success. Wondering if you are my old friend Dorcas Sa...... Who has a sister Sarah. If Paddington Bear, rugby, ambulances and california are you then get in touch. I would love to hear from you. Sorry don't want to out either of us :)

I just say let's talk when it's more convenient and put the phone down. Doesn't take long....

My DSIS does this, its highly annoying. She thinks that her DCs incessaent chatter is adorable and a sign of intelligence, I think its just bad manners and bad parenting.

This pi**es me off big-time.
My DC have known from a very early age that if mummy is on the phone they don't interrupt unless there is a fire.

End Of.

YANBU my dcs are 6 and 2 years old and they both know as soon as i pick up the phone to be silent. the whisper to each other so as not to interupt my conversation.

what annoys me even more is when they say "ooh little X wants to talk to you" and without even giving me a chance to say "actually i have to go now" they hand the phone over and i am stuck listening to heavy breathing and giggling down the phone while i can hear my friend in the back ground shouting up for Y to bring his washing down and telling Z to turn the tv down because booyhoo is on the phone

YANBU but the worst is when they put their kids on the phone.
I don't even want to talk to my own kids on the phone let alone yours!
I have one friend who used to do this EVERY time I phoned. "wait...Jasmine wants to talk to you!...." Cue five minues of nothing on the other end just rustling and my friend repeatedly saying "say something...go on....say something"
Aaaaaah!

Phone her while they are at school or in bed.

I can't be on the phone for 10 mins without dh interrupting! (DD, however, has learnt not to.)