"Sue" wrote in message
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My kids do to a point. But, are you expecting the kids to participate in
all
adult conversation the whole time? Some of it can be boring for kids or
not
appropriate. DD1 is more of the kid to hang with the adults, but my two
younger kids don't really care. I would be a little disheartened to have
the
kids hang out with me the whole time I was talking with the adults, maybe
you like that, but I don't. The kids also like to hang out with other kids
and play and have fun. Maybe yours doesn't?

If there are kids involved, sure they will go play. But if there are adults
they will have conversations with the adults. And in a family get-together,
the family does things together, not lay around playing video games. My
children happen to enjoy their families. They both play with their cousins,
AND talk to their grandparents, aunts and uncles.
Marie