Is our new Society forgetting to teach children table manners?
140676
I am sorry to disagree with you, but I don't think Society is forgetting that, PARENTS ARE!!!!\n\nChildren's good manners are the parents' responsibility.\n\nI am 30 years old and I have a 6 year old boy.  My parents taught me table manners and they DEMANDED me to behave well, now I do the same thing with my son.\n\nHe is very well behaved and has excellent table manners that everybody comments that.  The teachers at school are very proud of him and of course, I am too.\n\nSo, you can see that it wasn't the Society who taught him that.
1070549
The way young people are being brought up now is very different than when I was growing up. Parents now aren't near as strict as they use to be.  If the parents of the children now were to give their children the discipline they needed instead of just giving in because of , in some cases fear then the kids now would not be in the situations they are in.  Children would not be having children and morals would be a lot different.
647312
Not at all. As a matter of fact, I learnt manners as I grew up- from my parents and my teachers in school and my seniors. I taught them to my kids and we are a happy well mannered family. Though I do lose my temper when I see someone littering or being crass, and I do yell. But that is me.
438399
Perhaps they are from California like all the knuckleheads who wait to read the menu before they order food in a drive thru.  I think it comes down to, kids are having kids and are now kids aren't learning how to be thinkers because their parents are still learning how to be parents.
365162
I'm a teacher.  I never have unrealistic rules in my classroom and I try to lead by example.  If I am polite to children and never shout, then I accept the same from them.  I don't usually have disciplinary problems although there is the odd exception.
651328
Yes there is a terrible decline in behavior, manners and rudness!  My feeling is that people have become more and more selfish with each generation.   There is a desperate lack of consideration for anyone but yourself.  Things like road rage, talking on your cell phone in the movie theater, cutting in line ahead of others, tell people around you that you think you are more important than anyone else around and just put up with it because you're allowed to be rude.  But god forbid someone should do any of those things to you!  Sorry to use the word you so much.  Not directed at anyone in particular, hahaha.
797942
Children don't learn.  It is taught to them.\n\nCoach
414605
Yes. There's no discipline in schools or at home, or to authorities (compared to other countries), there's almost too /much/ free speech (people suing everyone over the tiniest things), and too much blaming. Especially parents. Parents that always blame the government, school, media, etc. even though it's they're own fault they can't take care of their own kids.
623123
We used to have Etiquette, you learned how to talk to people\n& how to deal with people.  Someone who is rude thinks he is\nin control, better than someone else.  It's a power thing.\nBut in the end, he is no better than anyone else!  You teach\npeople how to treat you, if  you allow yourself to be treated poorly you haven't done your job. It's also a peer\nthing - I remember the kids in school picking on others so that they can look "cool" in the eyes of others.  But as adults, we learn that these ways are not acceptable.  Isn't it better to tell someone to "have a nice day" than to tell\nsomeone to "biteme?" Think about it?  You don't need to be\nrude - no one does.  Ignore them.  They'll wise up & realize\nall eyes are not on them & they will straighten up.  They honestly don't sometimes often realize they are doing it because it becomes a 2nd nature to them.  OK?
856500
Maybe not forced but encouraged. If you only have healthy food around and keep the sweets minimal then good eating habits will come naturally. For children who already have bad eating habits it can take some work on getting them to eat correctly but when they get hungry enough they will eat what ever you put infront of them. I run a daycare and I keep the sweets out. Children at first complain that I don't have the chips and sweets they are used to but after a while I hear the parents comments on how they can no longer keep fruit and vegetables stocked in their homes. I have taught the children that good eating can be better and sweeter (if cooked correctly) then candy and junk food. It has gone a long way.
385521
What about the people who talk much louder on their cell phones while in the checkout lane. And what about a person on their cell phone when they are at the pharmacy picking up a prescription and the pharmacist is trying to tell them about the medication? And what about the people who sit down in a restaurant and won't give the server the time of day and then get mad because their drink order wasn't taken as soon as they sat down?\n\nI hope and pray that this does not become acceptable. Each and every day I personally encounter rudeness about 80% percent of the time. And when I finally think that the world has come to its end someone will show an act of politeness.
1122754
That's what social studies and generally studying people that are outside of their general thinking is intended to do.  Schools do try, but I think it needs to be taught throughout life and is probably a natural part of being a kid and learning about life..at first you're a little self-centered.  Actually, that self-centeredness to a certain age is proven in psychology.
916143
to me i think tolerance is like manners .it shouldn`t need to be taught .If you grow up in an enviroment where every one is good mannered you will behave in the same way and it will stay with you for life  as something you do as naturally as breathing .and  it`s the same way with open mindedness and tolerance and even knowing right from wrong As much as we don`t like the idea when we are young most people at some point realise that they have turned into one or the other of their parents.
345452
Yes, it's called dinner at my house.\n\nThe proper thing to do is to blame the youngest person at the table. \n\nI think I read that in an article by "Miss Manners". LOL
796988
Yes, I think so.  \nIt is a basic function of being prepared to be a citizen and a productive member of society.  Of course, it would be nice if parents taught this at home but you can't count on that.  While the responsibilities of individual jobs must be learned there, there are common basics that everyone could learn.
1121931
Yes I'm afraid that society as a whole is getting rudder in all cultures.  I find the more polite I am with people the better the response i get from them....so if this is the case then the polite people like you and i have the advantage.
830065
We are- the way we're taught. So if a particular Society deems it "appropriate" to bring up its children in a certain way- then THAT'S the way they'll tend to turn out. Check out the value system of any given Culture- & you'll have a pretty good idea of what those people will tend to be like. As for whether they'll ever change...- don't count on it. Change is experienced, -it can't be "taught"..