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If you are a parent, how should you deal with a child who intrudes on adult conversations?

Back in the day, when we were kids, when adults were talking, we kids had to either go in our room or go outside to play. Kids from that era were taught not to be involved or hear or be involved when grown folks were speaking.

Nowadays, you have 4-5-year-olds and younger kids getting too involved in their parents business and then exposing their business out of certain things they shouldn’t be saying or acting grown and too smart for their age who don't know to stay in a child's place.

For example, for me, a couple of years ago, I was in a call with a girl who I briefly talked to and wasn’t really anything to remember that didn’t count as a relationship whatsoever, but anyway, we were talking, and her little sister, who was like 4-5 years old, was on the call around when I talked to her big sister. We were older and adults by this time, grown adults, so then her little sister wanted to indulge in the conversation and become involved in it, questioning me about what I wanted with her sister, what we were talking about, or something like that. I felt like for her being the big sister, she should’ve told her little sister to go somewhere while she should be doing what little girls do at her age, like going to play with Barbie dolls, reading a book, or coloring books and pages, instead of enabling her behavior and being involved in the conversation in an adult discussion that had nothing to do with her. That’s what I can’t stand about kids and people who don’t correct or tell the kids to stay in their lane.

How would you all as parents deal with your children or kids alike?

If you are a parent, how should you deal with a child who intrudes on adult conversations?
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