to dislike it when I call a friend and a child answers the phone?

[hambler]

Tonight called a friend whose very bossy 10 yo dd answered with "Hello who am I speaking to?"

She has been doing this since she was about 5 or 6.

I HATE it when kids answer the phone. It's not like the call will be for them.

It never crossed my kids' minds to pick up the phone when they were young and I would never have suggested/encouraged it.
AM I alone?
BU?

[Greensleeves]

Oh fuck, I've cocked it up - it#s not her OP and not her thread itle

OK lie me down and pour cock-a-leekie soup over me

but after that, read her posts and my responses ,and you might find the sad wispy little ghost of a debate

[SoupDragon]

[Greensleeves]

suits you

[SoupDragon]

WTF have I done wrong? I simply pointed out, gently, that Puffling hadn't written the Op or the thread title before she launched in slightly less gently.

Sheesh. I'm off to bed.

[Greensleeves]

Oh

I was being prickly anddefensive

am not at my best atm

sorry Soupy

don't mind disagreeing eith you but don't want to upset you

[Greensleeves]

it is beginning to dawn on me that I maybe need to take a breath before I speak

[big moment]

I read my posts back on here and I sound very YOUNG compared to others

no offence meant Soupy, really

[Greensleeves]

you don't accept CAT

sorry Soupy

my prob, not yours

[Qally]

I don't care who answers the phone when I call people, as long as it isn't a passing serial killer who's left their limbs artfully arranged around the handset. And if friends' kids answer, they're invariably charming and polite - why would I mind speaking to them? I dun get it at all. Perhaps I just don't know enough obnoxious children, and DS will grow up to be a phone pest to show me the error of my laissez-faire ways, but it seems a little odd, if kids are somehow not entitled to pick up a call in their own homes. I'm not following the reasoning, really.

House phones usually get answered by family members. That includes kids. If that really bothers someone, maybe try sticking to mobiles/email instead?

[Judy1234]

You should have told her that proper grammar is - to whom am I speaking?

[KERALA1]

I love the story of the child answering the phone and shouting "mum its that woman you can't stand".

[hambler]

I think a lot of you huffy puffy mummies are getting confused between a light-hearted funny thread, and a major life crisis.

Children answering the phone doesn't upset or hurt anyone posting here. It gives us something to chuckle about. All the steam coming out of people's ears is coming from the indignant brigade of call-centre mums who demand that their children should be allowed to answer the phone. Carry on fgs

THANK YOU BLINDER

[MrsSpringsteen]

plus its also annoying when dcs pick up the phone to someone i do not wish to speak to

[blinder]

What... oh sorry I was on the bleedin phone!

[HerBeatitude]

Lighthearted Hambler?

"Disrespectful" "brats" "annoying" - that's light-hearted is it?

You might have been light hearted when you started the thread, but I wouldn't describe some of those posts as light-hearted tbh.

[Mooey40]

Hi everyone! I haven't posted here before but was searching for something about children being crap at answering the phone and was SOOOOO pleased to read all these..now I know I'm not the only one.Mine is 9 and just says "hello" in a horrid miserable monosyllabic way which really winds me up..she is NINE and should be able to attempt to be friendly by now surely? It's not from our bad example cos we are always cheerful and pleasant on the phone.aaargh...

[flopalong]

Still its not as bad as those parents who put their babies on the phone, that winds me up. Their 5 weeks old FGS.

[Pikelit]

I don't really expect to speak to a young child when I'm phoning an adult - not being a great one for wittering on aimlessly, my calls are almost always about arrangements and I need someone who can take messages. But I don't have a problem using older children as diary secretaries!