Manners matter.
Period. Make sure that YOU
(the parent) have them to begin with.
Then, start teaching them to your children early because ...... GREAT and
CONSISTENT manners take practice
and couching and reinforcing.
What do I mean by good manners? I mean the obvious ‘please and thank you’ but I will also
say that, in my opinion, there’s more to it than those magic words. For example:
Holding the door for everyone if you’re the first to get to
it.
Waiting to the side if there is someone coming out of a
door.
Saying, “May I please have…………..” when you are ordering at a
restaurant (instead of ‘Can I have’ or ‘I want’).
Taking a small amount of something (when there are others to
share with).
Greeting someone with total eye contact and a hand shake.
Picking up things if someone drops them.
Serving someone before yourself.
I’m leaving some off this list, but I imagine you
get the idea. Teaching your children great manners is a gift (to them and to
the world) because manners are love, caring, kindness and compassion in
action! Period.
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