25 Manners Every Kid (and some adults) Should Know

DanOhh
DanOhh Posts: 1,806 Member
edited September 27 in Chit-Chat
Interesting article

I know I'm not perfect and I should learn to use some of these more myself.

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/parenting/25-manners-every-kid-should-know-by-age-9-2480238/

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  • sessaleigh
    sessaleigh Posts: 45
    Thanks for sharing! I don't have kids, but part of my job is helping parents improve their skills. This could really come in handy!
  • Oompa_Loompa
    Oompa_Loompa Posts: 1,099 Member
    chew with your mouth closed!
  • Aetarac
    Aetarac Posts: 135 Member
    Thanks for sharing link, have yet to look at list but I am no doubt guilty of some of these :p.
  • goron59
    goron59 Posts: 890 Member
    Nice - I'll be checking up on how my nieces and nephews do.

    I admit to disagreeing with #13 though - I'm endlessly amused by bad language, especially when coming from a very young or very old person. Of course, the kids don't need to know that!
  • jend114
    jend114 Posts: 1,058 Member
    love #13
    Manner #13
    Never use foul language in front of adults. Grown-ups already know all those words, and they find them boring and unpleasant.
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    Here's one to mention:

    Don't talk on your cell phone in a public bathroom. It's gross, and just the fact that so many people do this is disgusting. Can't they wait until they get out of the bathroom?
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    Nice - I'll be checking up on how my nieces and nephews do.

    I admit to disagreeing with #13 though - I'm endlessly amused by bad language, especially when coming from a very young or very old person. Of course, the kids don't need to know that!

    I agree on your POV.
  • MotherofDREAMS
    MotherofDREAMS Posts: 45
    chew with your mouth closed!
    Like! Like!! Like!!! Like!!!!

    ...another. Please keep hair out of your face at the table.

    ...yet another. Make eye contact when shaking someone's hand.
  • therobinator
    therobinator Posts: 832 Member
    I admit to disagreeing with #13 though - I'm endlessly amused by bad language, especially when coming from a very young or very old person. Of course, the kids don't need to know that!
    "Manner #6
    The world is not interested in what you dislike. Keep negative opinions to yourself, or between you and your friends, and out of earshot of adults."

    Lol - just kidding. ;)
  • skinnyme125
    skinnyme125 Posts: 396 Member
    well it apears that I have taught my son spot on. I get so upset when people don't teach there children these things. I get compliments often of how sweet my son is and how polite. Then they get upset when i correct him when he does something he shouldn't. I have to say how do you think he got so polite and well mannered in the first place? It is because i pay attention to my child and don't want him to be hated for being a little *kitten*. Sorry for that language but that is really how i feel. Thank you for the article and I do hope that more people take it to hart and raise beautiful well mannered children.
  • binary_jester
    binary_jester Posts: 3,311 Member
    Manner #7

    Do not comment on other people's physical characteristics unless, of course, it's to compliment them, which is always welcome.

    So a boy saying...she's a MILF. I mean, that's complimentary.
  • reese66
    reese66 Posts: 2,920 Member
    Here's one to mention:

    Don't talk on your cell phone in a public bathroom. It's gross, and just the fact that so many people do this is disgusting. Can't they wait until they get out of the bathroom?

    I hate it too, although at my job it is only one of the approved places to use your phone.
  • reese66
    reese66 Posts: 2,920 Member
    ...
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    Here's one to mention:

    Don't talk on your cell phone in a public bathroom. It's gross, and just the fact that so many people do this is disgusting. Can't they wait until they get out of the bathroom?

    I hate it too, although at my job it is only one of the approved places to use your phone.

    I know for some it can't be helped. Just talk outside of the stall not while you're doing your business.
  • JenniferH81
    JenniferH81 Posts: 285 Member
    The only one my daughter is bad with is interrupting. My poor child has no clue how to stop talking. <3
  • BeautifulScarsWECHANGED
    BeautifulScarsWECHANGED Posts: 749 Member
    LOVE this Dan! Thanks for sharing!
  • JoyceJoanne
    JoyceJoanne Posts: 760 Member
    I have to say that

    "Manner #5

    When you have any doubt about doing something, ask permission first. It can save you from many hours of grief later."

    Still gets me... I tend to ask for forgivness more often than asking for permission... it's more fun! :bigsmile:
    My kids however, usually DO ask for permission- even as adults! They figured out the 'do as I say, not as I do' pretty well. haha
  • TripleJ3
    TripleJ3 Posts: 945 Member
    Most childern learn behavior from watching their parents more than their parents just telling them this is what you should do.

    Yes I teach my childern how to behave and tell them the proper way to do something other than just saying, "that's rude" or whatever but they learn more by seeing how my husband and I interact with each other and other people.

    I see how some parents talk to and around their kids and think, And people wonder why kids act the way they do.
  • JoyceJoanne
    JoyceJoanne Posts: 760 Member
    We taught our children (24, 21) how to be well behaved, polite and respected. They are both very polite, intelligent, strong, capable adults. Neither of them do drugs or are big drinkers. [ YES I do know. I was a 'bad' kid, I know the signs- plus they ASKED me if there was ever a time in question] They respect people who respect them. They are hard working, both have jobs and go to school (getting good grades).

    We got plenty of crap about being too strict-mostly from people who weren't. As my husband says 'the proof is in the pudding'. Some of the kids they grew up with have been arrested, had alcohol poisioning etc. Ours- both successful and happy...
    I am VERY proud of the adults they have become.
  • tashjs21
    tashjs21 Posts: 4,584 Member
    Manner #3

    Do not interrupt grown-ups who are speaking with each other unless there is an emergency. They will notice you and respond when they are finished talking


    Yes yes yes!! I have a young cousin that has always done this and his parents allowed it. Even when I was a teenager it annoyed me because I always was taught not to interrupt adults...and now that I am an adult and he is a teenager and he does it when I am speaking with his parents...I just want to lose it!
  • koosdel
    koosdel Posts: 3,317 Member
    Here's one to mention:

    Don't talk on your cell phone in a public bathroom. It's gross, and just the fact that so many people do this is disgusting. Can't they wait until they get out of the bathroom?

    I hate it too, although at my job it is only one of the approved places to use your phone.

    I know for some it can't be helped. Just talk outside of the stall not while you're doing your business.

    What about texting? I find 'dropping the kids off at the pool' rather boring, and its also when I do my best thinking.
  • kje2011
    kje2011 Posts: 502 Member
    bump. will have to check this site out later.
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