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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do I gently deal with kids who interrupt and dominate adult conversations? I don’t want to offend the other mom. I often meet up with other moms for some adult conversation but one of the moms’ children always ends up dominating our conversations. After spending the entire day with my kids, I am really just craving talking to other adults, not talking to other kids about kid stuff.

The other mom sort of encourages it and I can kind of see it as a social benefit for the children in getting practice speaking with other adults. But for me there is also the extra element of being raised to think it’s rude to chat away with adults unless they talk to you.  And her kids are lovely but I just don’t want to talk with them the entire time, but they just love talking with us instead of playing on their own or with each other.[/quote]

Need more details.  Are you going over with your kids?  What time?  If you want adult time you need to tell her your friend.  Go over when kid is asleep or invite her to your house and tell your kids not to interrupt.[/quote]

We generally meet up outside at a playground, at the end of the day.  The kids get to meet up and play, and the adults get to meet up and chat (ideally).[/quote]

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