Wednesday, June 11th, 2008...12:04 pm
#2: Don’t Talk About Your (Grownup) Children
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My daughter lives in Paris. She’s the editor of a magazine
there called Self Service. And my son: My son goes to Yale. Let me tell you all about them.
Or maybe I should just keep my mouth shut.
Going on and on about your grownup children is one of the prime ways people act old. It’s not the fact of having adult children that makes them seem old, it’s talking as if their kids are the most interesting thing about them. As if their children are the ones with the noteworthy lives now, as if their own lives are beneath mention.
So mention that you have kids, by all means. Say what they’re up to, if you’re asked. But don’t make them your main topic of conversation.
3 Comments
June 16th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Couldn’t agree more with this one….
July 11th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I don’t talk about my grown children, but I will rave on about my grandson and if that makes me “old” then so be it!
August 2nd, 2009 at 12:15 am
Children, let me tell you about my really cool grandkids!
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