Are you teaching your kids to have manners?

I’d hope most people are! 😩

There’s some times I wait to see how my daughter reacts or see if she catches herself before I intervene. Plus there is an aspect of seeing how children use the tools you teach them to resolve things amongst themselves.

Yes. I honestly hate the no sharing trend. I get not giving other kids the toy you're playing with right now. But it's completely reasonable to have kids share and take turns when in public settings or in schools/daycares. There is very fancy swing that stops by itself and all the kids will line up to take turns and the other day a 6 or 7 year old refused to take turns with the others because he didn't need to share and hid parents weren't doing anything about it and I basically had to kick him off

YES, we're very big on hello/goodbye & please/thank you. She's almost 2 and almost always says please/thank you on her own, sometimes she needs a reminder but for the most part she has good manners so far. Got real tired of getting her snacks and toys all day without a single please or thank you so I made her learn to say them around 12mo 😅🤣 We're currently working more on sharing, her new brother is good practice!

I am working on teaching respect. You don’t have to be nice to everyone but you also don’t have to be a dick. I don’t believe you should have to share but you can’t expect someone to share if you won’t share. It learning to get and give.

Yes, this is one thing we’re strict about

Absolutely! Manners cost nothing and basic kind and polite are very important traits to me. We are British and and generally we are very, very polite. We now live in a country where manners aren’t quite what they are at home. It’s a very fast paced culture, you get what you want quickly and that’s it.. manners kind of get forgotten about. So manners to us have become even more important to us and we really really encourage it.

I find it surprising as well! It is rare to find parents that will stop their children's undesirable behaviour. Everytime I go to a park I have to be mentally prepared to call out someone else's child. Some parents will show up after that, while others seem to be OK with a stranger doing the parenting.

Yes it's very important to me. I've had so many comments over the years about how polite my eldest is 🥰

Absolutely we are, I can't see who wouldn't be teaching their kids this. My teenage daughter is always complimented on how kind and respectful she is and my youngest is following. They are taught to share when they have finished with whatever they are playing with, not to hand over the toy they have atm. Just once you're finished then another child can play with it ect. I hate seeing parents do nothing about their children snatching and not being kind, it's ridiculous.

Yes. I don’t want my children to be bullies, to grow up thinking they are entitled to do what they want. Sadly, that’s how lots of adults end up in jail. Manners matter. Compassion, kindness, politeness. These things push your children forward in life. Being a little 💩does the opposite.

Yes. I think every thoughtful involved parent does. Obviously not every parent is thoughtful and involved. And not all adults even have manners.

It’s been work but we are at a point where if someone is mean or takes things from my daughter she now stops herself from reacting and says Jesus help this little girl give her patience! Amen! ☺️