The Child Who Constantly Interrupts Adult Conversations

Constant interrupting is rarely rudeness. It is a young child who cannot yet hold a thought or judge a moment, reaching to be sure of you at the very instant your attention turns to someone else, and who has learned that breaking in always works.

This short, warm guide answers it with one clear idea: make waiting always work, and interrupting never work. Give your child a reliable way to reach you, honour it every time, and quietly take away the payoff for breaking in.

With a simple signal your child can learn, a seven-day plan, and ready phrases for calls, visitors, and the table, you can teach one of the quiet skills of a considerate life: holding his own urgent world for a moment out of regard for someone else's.