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What has happened to good manners in this world? Did someone put them under a rock and forget where they put them? Well, I certainly wish they would find them again. This world is becoming such a rude and uncaring world, especially in the United States. There are so many parents today that have become so lazy in raising their children and one of the biggest problems is not teaching them manners.
There is nothing wrong with saying please; thank you and you are welcome. How wonderful it is to hear those little words, chiefly coming from teenagers. Manners must be taught from a very early age, and look, it is not that hard to do. Children will copy their parents on everything they say and do. So the parents that do not have any manners or do not use the ones they were taught, children will follow that all the way through their lives.
I am not saying all teenagers and young adults do not have manners, just a lot of them. Listening to girls talk to their mothers the way they do today, my mother would have back handed me for sure. I would never dream of disrespecting her in that way. There used to be schools that taught nothing but manners, where did they go? Young ladies knew how to sit and stand properly and how to eat at a table. There were no elbows on the table in our house. Elbows always got whacked and it hurt.
Teaching your children when they are young, the manners and social graces will be with them for the rest of their lives. Teach them to listen to someone that is speaking, not interrupting them all the time. In particular to the elderly, they through age are slower and will take a bit more patience than others. Teach our children how to eat at the dinner table, and then you will not be embarrassed when you go out to a restaurant. Many people that do have good manners are embarrassed for them, and I am included in that. Teach them to eat with their mouths closed, what a horrible sight to see someone chewing their food and talking at the same time, or to hear them chewing and slapping their lips. Above all teach random acts of kindness, it doesn't take much to put a smile on someone's face when you have done something nice for them or just being polite.
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