DD (4) will not let me talk on the phone even for 5 minutes - Help!

[oneplusone]

Please help, every single time I'm on the phone (I only make essential calls during the day) DD who is 4 CONSTANTLY tries to talk to me and screams and shouts if I don't respond to her.

I just had an incident now and I had to leave the room and lock her in and continue my conversation in the kitchen with her screaming in the background and kicking the door.

Please help, it's driving me mad! I've tried to talk to her calmly about it, tried stickers, tried everything but nothing works and it leaves me fuming that I can't even make a quick call without her kicking off.

Been through that, oneplusone. Once, I was so mortified when a friend phoned and DS then 4 kept talking to me while I was speaking, then started fighting with his little sister. I went into the sitting room and stood against the door to keep it shut. Then he started throwing objects at the door, hitting the glass panels so I quickly had to terminate conversation before there was a bloodbath!
And do you know what he had the cheek to do then, smile and ask me who was I talking to!!!! All that trouble just to get a question answered. He's now 6 and doesn't bat an eyelid when I'm on the phone now. I'm sure DD won't be as desperate for your attention as she'll have enough going on in her life.

Sorry I can't think of anything to help oneplusone except to tell you that one of my kids was exactly the same. I could be sitting in the same room with her for 2 hours and she wouldn't say a word and then when the phone rang it was

"mum, can I blah blah blah blah blah next Friday"

Yes it does drive you completely mad my DD is now 10 and still does it every time. I just keep telling her about how rude it is to do this and how rude children grow up to become rude adults.

I find that drinking copious amounts of alcohol makes me not care anymore and when my liver packs in I'll just blame the kids LOL.

I meant to say "I'm sure Dd won't be as desperate for your attention in a couple of years as she'll have enough going on in her life with schoolwork!"

lol, nametaken!

I make phone calls from the garden with the back door locked so they can't get to me (I can see through the window before anyone feaks out) Tis the only way IME I'm afraid

i had the same problem oneplusone, since she was 2 years 3 months, now she is still doing it sometimes-she is 6,5 btw, but before she was driving me mad, put me in difficult positions on the phone-like almost half brained, couldnt hear what other people say, or think and how would i answer.
for the last year its less.
i got really angry a few times, told her its so unacceptable, and she generally stopped.
they are only after attention, cant share us.

My dc are 13 & 9 and sometimes even now they play up when I'm on the phone, when they do, I send them both to their rooms so I can have a civilised phone call. I dare say they grow out of it.....at some point!