Mumsplaining: The parenting phenomenon a Melburnian is noticing ‘often’

Deputy Editor of the Sunday Age, Stephen Brook, has noticed a parenting phenomenon which he says he’s seeing more and more often.

He’s dubbed it ‘Mumsplaining’, and he wrote about it in the paper on the weekend.

Mr Brook says when he engages in conversation with the children of friends, he finds it’s not the children answering his questions.

“Often I find there’s three people in the conversation, and more often or not it’s the mother, although I would of course concede that fathers can do this too, who sort of step in to be the interpreter or smooth over the situation, or in some cases to directly answer a question,” he told Heidi Murphy, filling in for Neil Mitchell.

“It’s just a piece of social observation I picked up engaging with my friends and their children.”

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