Do you have a colleague who talks about her child ALL the time

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One of my colleagues talks constantly about her child. To the point she'll listen everything she's eaten that day. I feel bad but its so boring.

No but my in-laws constantly talk about their other grandchildren- not DD.
we rang them to tell them how well DDs parents evening had gone and the response was “ok, oh guess what Ben has done today, he put his mums recycling out so we are taking him out tomorrow to burger king as a treat”- I shit you not. It enrages me but DH is used to SIL being the golden child growing up so he always assumed they would treat her kids better than ours.

Can't you just say "TMI, Jenny!" Or steer the conversation elsewhere, or tell her it's a bit boring? Or put some headphones on?

I used to work somewhere where colleagues gossiped constantly about Big Brother and other TV programmes I wasn't interested in - that was much more difficult as it was several of them doing it.

You don't "do" kids? What an odd remark.

Yep. One of my colleagues lives his life through his kids. They're grown up. One has just moved into his own house and one has just started her first job.

It's ALL he talks about. Mind numbingly boring. But he's a really nice guy, so I pretend I don't mind.

What??!

hehe

Wait till it's grandchildren -

She probably doesn't have anything else in her life.

I can only imagine.
Having seen the Molly Mae series on Amazon (don’t judge!) they are probably influenced by her and her daughter, Bambi.
Bambi is at soft play today.
Bambi goes to ballet.
I can remember sitting at a table in a staff area at work, I was junior and just used to listen. Female staff on it, obsessed with their children.
One lady used to sit on the end looking murderous and one day she got up and piped up…
I f*cking hate kids!
Let’s just say she was hard!

My mil is like this with my niece.

She'd talk about Rosie all day, if I let her.
I don't want to hear a blow by blow account about when Rosie had her braces fitted.
Or, how many trains Rosie has to take to get to her boyfriend's house.
Or that time when Rosie, etc...

I'll mentally let her have 5 minutes of talking about Rosie, then i swiftly change the subject.

@SharpOpalNewt

That sentence jumped out at me too.

People at my office were shocked I had three kids the other day - they assumed it was just two as I rarely talk about them

Can't bear people who bang on about them. That and people who think their husbands opinion about out work place policies are relevant, or we should wait to book our holidays until we know when their husbands are off. Bizarre behaviour.

My aunt has started to send pictures of her grandkids to my mom and now my mom tells all about what ny aunt has told me and shows the pic. All the best for my cousin and his family bur I'm really not that interested that I want to watch weekly videos of them.

Oh god, @Rewis I forgot about all the videos of Rosie dancing! 😩

Yup I had one of these. I felt a bit sorry for her, obviously her year off on maternity leave had all consumed her. It gradually tailed off and after she had child number two she had stopped and started talking about other stuff again.

I don't do kids either, nothing more boring than listening to people wang on about theirs

If you want to have a conversation, you should find something interesting to talk about.

I like to think these two are colluding in a massive pisstake of the actual parents in the team - maybe they were so utterly bored hearing the minutiae about all of your real children who they have no interest in they decided together to get their own back with fake kids?!

The alternative is that they have mental health issues 😬

Another colleague wrote to say her premature baby was out of NICU- this colleague still managed to turn it into something about her kid !

I’m due march and got a running bet going on about how long after she finds out mine is born that she manages to make about hers… I’m giving it five minutes max.

I can remember an icebreaker at Uni, on a access course for mature students. I went first, then another woman. We felt like terrible mothers because neither of us mentioned that we had children. None of the fathers mentioned their children either. On later icebreakers we did talk about our pets though.

This is my mother
She has 7 grandchildren and one great grandchild
If you listen to her,she only has two
It's all 'Nathan this' jacson' (yep that's how it's spelt) that'
She was the same when we where growing up-i never got a mention
If I rang to say something like 'oh molly has just won an award for art at school-shes the best in the school' all id get back is 'Nathan managed to piss in the toliet today so we're taking him to maccies' or 'jacson didn't thump anyone today so we're taking him to the zoo'
No 'oh well done molly-so proud'

Used to grind my gears

Colleague in management position constantly has to mention her husband, 'well Dan says ' & 'well Dan thinks' 'Dan does'. It's just fucking irritating. The grown up kids get mentioned too. All what's going on in their lives. It's just unprofessional. It just gives the impression that if she's talking about him & her kids to us, what confidential information is she sharing about her team at home. She is privy to confidential information.

I had one who banged on and on about parkrun. Well done, you’ve run round the park. Again.

Did you not ask their PB time and whether they’d beaten it. How roooood 😂

It’s tedious, although an easy trap to fall into when you become a parent. What’s even more tedious is when someone goes on like this when you have a child of your own.