We do that now. Our children were encouraged to talk and carry on conversations with the adults. The boys do that with their kids and our grands know their opinions are always welcome. In fact when me and the sibs would get to telling (clean) jokes, we used to have to warn my mother’s mother to put her coffee down. My brother once told a joke that resulted in our VERY prim and proper grandma to snort her coffee out her nose. SO now that was and still is a family tradition, someone will say put the coffees down it’s joke time.Our boys could discuss current affairs even when they were in 2nd grade, used to flip out one of the teachers that they were articulate and knowledgeable about what was going on around them. By the way that teacher was a PITA and didn’t last long at the school.
