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Children With Bad Manners and Their Parents - Why They Irk Me
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I saw an article in Parenting magazine about teaching children to be gracious when accepting Christmas gifts they might not necessarily like. I couldn't help but think that, in general (not just at Christmas), children seem to be a lot less polite and gracious these days. Children with bad manners are often praised for being "forward", and rudeness is often disguised as "honesty". Don't get me wrong, I'm all for people, children especially, having a voice and an opinion - but when having a voice means saying things that really don't need to be said, under the guise of "telling it like it is", it starts to cross the line in my opinion. There's no need, for example, for people to be reminded of the fact that they're overweight/tall/short/whatever. It's something that says a lot about the society we now live in, but it irks me all the same. As a childcare worker and now a parent, the amount of children with bad manners I come across is such that children with exceptionally GOOD manners are the exception rather than the rule. I think what bothers me more than children with bad manners are their parents who have raised them to be like that. I know someone who used to work as a children's face-painter. Once, after painting a child's face, she said "And where are your manners?" The child replied that his parents had taught him not to be subservient, so my friend smudged the boy's face all over and said "Well if you won't use your manners, I won't paint your face properly!" Touche'!
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Posted by:
feisty_leo
(female, 30-ish)
(Posted 12/6/07)
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Anonymous
(12/10):
Face-painting tantrums won't help. Spankings will.
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feisty_leo
(12/13):
'Face-painting tantrums'? Get over yourself. What's that got to do with a parent deliberately teaching their child to be rude and beligerent?
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feisty_leo
(12/13):
If I was her, I would have lost my cool with the kid as well. It's not her fault that the kid is a brat.
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socalgal
(12/14):
I completely agree. I don't know if parents are too busy to teach their children good manners, or just plain lazy - but it irks me too. Since when it is OK for a 13 year old to act like a butthead and the parents just laugh about it...."Oh, he's just acting out his independence." It's a modern day Stepford - except this time it's the kids programming the parents. I don't get it....
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