How do you raise your children with good manners?

She'll retain it. My children have. One thing that my father taught me when I was a young mother. Children want boundaries and they look for us to set those boundaries for them. Also, that they want to please their parents. If we acknowledge what things we are pleased about and what things we are not pleased with, they will learn to conform to these things at an early age.

With consistancy that is how you do this. My daughter is 16 years old and when we go out for dinner and the waitress will ask what would you like? Her response is usually something like Hamburger and fries. I just shoot that look and if she doesnt doesn't see it I will then verbally I will say Please! Then she will say oh please. Even at home when she asks her little brother to get her something she will say Jayson will you get my cd for me. I will not let him get it until she says please. She says I am too anal with my manners, I just tell her that my parents raised me to be polite which I am, and I expect the same from my children.

The best thing that any parent could ever do would be to set a good example for their cildre. They need to have good manner themselves, and be respectful to people as they want their children to be respectful to people. A rude paret can not instill manners in a child who is only followig their example.

The best way to teach manners is to model good manners. I ask my son for something by saying please and thank you. I ask him to say the same things to me. If I give him respect and address him with good manners, he will do the same thing. Some people think that children don't need or deserve respect- they are the ones with ill-mannered, obnoxious children- and are usually pretty ill-mannered themselves. If manners are taught at a young age, they will be retained into adulthood, but parents need to continue to model good manners and respect.

Hi MsEdge, I completely agree with you here and only this morning I received a thank note from my nephew for his birthday card and money which I think is lovely because many will not bother but myself and my brothers were bought up to have manners and respect so we have automatically passed this onto our children. My littleone is so sweet when he says thank you he says tank you as still learning his speach but he will always say on if really excited and on occasion doesn't I will prompt him but it is automatic usually. Ellie :D

Kids idolize their parents. so raising them well with a good manner will depend on parents attitude.. we must show the good examples to them...

i believe that respect for others is a good virtue.A child should be brought up to respect others.When this is done,automtically,u get it back because the child grows up knowing that his parents and othrs deserve to be respected.You get respect when u give it,if u don't get it the u can demand it.