Gregory's Server@Quenby I think it’s easy for parents to assume whatever their kids are doing is unimportant and hence it’s okay to just interrupt them. But imagine you needed to interrupt an adult in the middle of a task requiring concentration. You’d say something like “Excuse me. [pause] I’m really sorry to interrupt, but…”. Certainly our kids deserve the same courtesy.
@cohomologyisFUN @Quenby I think at root it's very often a lack of respect for the child as an individual. Of course that's generally learned behaviour, people copying what their parents did without thinking. Which doesn't make it any better