Phonecalls

I was wondering how many of you can relate. My LO is very active and chatty and whenever I get a phonecall she is always trying to talk to me and get my attention. My family makes me feel very bad about it as if she was very badly behaved not knowing to not to interrupt when someone calls me. But what am I to do?! Please like if you can relate.

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Haha. Guessing your family have forgotten what its like to have kids or they don't have them. All my phone calls and about the kids. It's usually the grandparents anyway and they only want to see the grandkids really. If I want to have an actual conversation with someone I wait until the kids are asleep. I think it's good to include them in calls as they then learn about making conversation and not just statement xx

Defiantly agree with Nicky anyone who has kids know as soon as the phone rings they want to be included and can be full on if the phone call isn’t about them my son is the same 😅😂

You're definitely not alone. I have 2 kids like this my oldest will be 4.5 in April and hes exactly the same. So I have both making a raket and interrupting me. I recently had a GP telephone appointment and the GP said sounds like you have your hands full and I said how old they are and she didn't make any comment about how it shouldn't be like that she just said oh kids will be kids or something to that effect. Then she said those ages are the most fun but challenging. Try not to worry. You absolutely aren't doing anything wrong at all xx

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