My pet peeve: Children with bad manners...

Have you ever seen the show Super Nanny? It's one of my favorite shows thats out right now. It's about a professional and well educated nanny that comes to the rescue for families in desperate need of help with their ill mannered children.

You seriously should see some of the things these kids get away with, mainly because their parents are too lazy or fed up to deal with it. I don't even want to imagine how tiring 24/7 parenting is.... but I CAN tell you, that I am going to make sure my kids listen to me when I ask them to do something, and if they ignore me, there will be consiquences. Simple as that. If you don't teach them discipline now, how do you think they're going to be as adults?? YIKES!

Yesterday, this kid was aiming rubber bands at me and pretending to shoot them. I told him that's very dangerous, and he could hit me in the face, so he should aim it towards the wall, or someplace where it wouldn't hurt anyone.... and he COMPLETELY ignored me! Just blew it off and shot them towards me. Now, I'm not his parent so I have no right saying anything to him other than, please stop..... But shouldn't he have been taught to listen to adults when they tell him to stop doing something? That just makes no sense to me.

I know I ALWAYS bring my nephew in to my stories, but bear with me here...

Jackson is very well mannered. If I ask him to do something, or stop doing something, for the most part.. he does it right away. He gets it. He KNOWS there will be consiquences because my sister has made sure she follows through with the consequences. She doesn't become lazy about it and blow it off. That's good parenting.

I really think that most people in our society lack good old fashioned manners. I've said it before but it actually ticks me off. It's actually more scary than anything... think about it... what will we all look like 30 years down the road when the lack of teaching manners to our children turns into them not teaching manners and so on and so forth? Scary, huh?

Now don't get me wrong here. I'm not saying that ALL PARENTS are lazy and don't teach basic and extended manners to their children, and seriously, kudos to those who think it's as important as I do.

Here's another example: my ex boyfriend was taught good manner at an early age. His mother did a great job enforcing the importance of them.

Whenever we would walk on the street, out of habit, he would ALWAYS walk on the side closest to the street. He said his mother taught him this because it's safer for the girl to be farthest away from the cars. Also, sometimes if I was driving and asked him to grab my cell phone for me out of my purse, he always felt uncomfortable digging through it, because he said it was rude to look through a woman's purse. WOW. Were any of you taught this?

Seriously!!

Let's keep the tradition of good manners going. Whatdya say?