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When I notice a polite well mannered child...
I make a point to hug them and tell them how wonderful they are. Then I tell their parents the same thing. Most just think I am the crazy lady in a wheelchair but it is just as important to notice the good ones as it is to admonish the ones who aren't.
Mike's Goddess
posted by
mikes_goddess
on April 18, 2005 at 9:36 AM
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Great post.
The incident in the restroom - unbelievable, but not unsurprising. There isn't much respect today, from the 3-year-old who once said "F*** you" to me in my own front yard, to the way one is treated at clinics and hospitals. I have a particular thing about being called by my first name by people I don't know. And once I ask them not to do it, and they insist on it, I find it very insulting.
Some people do teach respect to their children, but those quiet, polite ones aren't always noticed.
posted by
Witchflower
on April 18, 2005 at 8:36 AM
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Mikes
Go for it woman!
posted by
Offy
on April 17, 2005 at 7:43 PM
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If it happens again...
talking is the last thing I'll be doing
Mike's Goddess
posted by
mikes_goddess
on April 17, 2005 at 7:40 PM
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Mikes
While growing up in the south, we had to say "yes sir" or "yes mam" . If we addressed an adult by their first name we had to say "miss" in front of that name. If we forgot our manners, we had to write them a hundred times on the chalk board. We learned fast.
I am sorry those girls had no manners.. there is no excuse, just hope it don't happen again, otherwise , go on with plan B, have that little talk with them...
posted by
Offy
on April 17, 2005 at 7:03 PM
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I live in the south...
and I agree with you. I still say yes mam and no mam/yes sir and no sir to my elders and I am 40 years old. I don't call people older than me by their first names and my friends that are older then me I call Mr. So and so or Miss. So and so. It's ingrained. I wish people were teaching their kids better and modeling better to their kids.
Mike's Goddess
posted by
mikes_goddess
on April 17, 2005 at 6:39 PM
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mikes_goddess
It's not just teens who are disrespectful, but adults as well. Even in the south, the last bastion of old fashioned good manners, it's slowly slipping away.
posted by
Talion
on April 17, 2005 at 5:29 PM
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