Manners, What has happened to them?
By BDnLacy
@BDnLacy (324)
United States
January 10, 2007 5:37pm CST
You know when I was growing up, the children were expected to say things like ...excuse me, please, thank you, you're welcome, yes / no maam, and yes / no sir. But it doesn't seem to be a value that parents teach these days. I was in the store the other day and a child that couldn't be any more then 5 was cursing like a sailor. His mom just looked at him and said..(her exact words)"now you know moomy doesn't like it when you talk that way in public" IN PUBLIC! The fact that he was cursing didn't bother her. I began watching them and listening to how the child was talking, and every time he replied to her it was "yea" "naw" and then she tells him I going to tell your dad. He replies to her "O well do what ever you want". I was so mad at HER for not teaching her child any better than that.
When did parents stop teaching simple manners and family values? If I was to pull anything close to what this little boy did, I wouldn't have been able to sit down for a month. We still teach our children respect & manners. Are we the only ones? I used to say it was just kids from big cities that wasn't taught manners, but this child is from my town where we have less than 20,000 people. How many of you still teach basic manner to your children?
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4 responses
@Ashida (1370)
• United States
12 Jan 07
My wife and I have worked hard to teach our children manners. To me being polite just helps everyone get along.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned or something, but it seems to me that society worked a lot better when people used manners. For me it's a case of do onto others as you'd have them do onto you. I try to be polite, and expect to be treated in kind. Unfortunately it seems that not as many people feel this way now. Hasn't stopped me from trying though.
Thanks for the interesting post!
@faylinn_chaeli (1619)
• Philippines
11 Jan 07
Sometimes kids and teens talk that way. I have also done that before but now as I grow older I have learned that paying respect to the elders is important because I don't want them to do the same to me when I grow old.
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@jmespinosa82 (498)
• United States
7 May 07
We still teach our kids manners and actually down here in the southern part of the country people still say ma'am and sir and my daughter says that yes ma'am no sir and stuff like that. I thought it was weird when we first moved here but now I really like it sounds so respectful.
I know some parents I think want to just "talk" with their kids but I think that thier has to be some kind of dicipline. We just have to put our oldest in timeout and she will start crying she don't like it so she don't act out very much. But yes it surprises me how parents let their kids talk without manners to other people and how disrespectful they can be.
