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To think this is really weird to question my child on this?

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Himitsu · 21/09/2024 17:57

My 10 year old went to a friends house for a lunch today. She came back and asked if we rent or have a mortgage. I asked why and apparently the friends mum had been questioning her. She asked my daughter:

What job I do
What car do I drive
Do I have a degree
Do we own or rent
How many holidays do we go on a year

Aibu to think these are weird questions to ask a 10 year old??

OP posts:
BurbageBrook · 21/09/2024 19:58

What a horrible, or extremely nosy, woman she must be!

MrsSunshine2b · 21/09/2024 20:11

ArabellaFishwife · 21/09/2024 19:46

I'm baffled that so many of you think it's normal to ask a primary school aged child what their parents do for a living. How does that come up exactly?
The rest of it is intrusive and weird too.

We talk about all sorts with DD at the dinner table and could easily end up having that conversation. For example:
DD: Me and (friend) did gymnastics in PE today.
Me: Do you like gymnastics too? DD has just started gymnastics club and really likes it.
Child: Yes, but I can't go to the club because Mummy is at work when it starts.
Me: Oh right, does Mummy's job finish late? Maybe we could take you sometime. What does she do for a job?

I can't quite see how she'd have got onto all those topics in one evening but I can easily see why they'd have talked about holidays.

JMSA · 21/09/2024 20:15

Very strange and inappropriate.

Elsvieta · 21/09/2024 20:32

ArabellaFishwife · 21/09/2024 19:46

I'm baffled that so many of you think it's normal to ask a primary school aged child what their parents do for a living. How does that come up exactly?
The rest of it is intrusive and weird too.

It probably comes up when someone asks, along with lots of other getting-to-know-you questions - just like when adults ask each other what they do or what their spouses do (or, perhaps, if very young adults, what their parents do) or where they live or if they have kids or whatever. I think that one's fine. But the others are weird.

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