I believe I may have grown up in the last generation where the common expectation for kids were to be seen and not heard. If I happened to stumble into an adult conversation, I had better not look like I was listening to what was being said and I better not attempt to join the conversation. The consequence of that no-no would not have been good. Most times, when adults were having a conversation with each other, the children were asked to leave the room because, "this is g