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Keep your elbows off the table!
I don't know if it was the first thing I was taught but it must have be drummed into me harder!

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Please and thank you, followed by NO ELBOWS.


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I was taught the same as everyone else mentioned above.

The most prominent teaching I remember, and one that I don't always practice (sp?) <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> -- sometimes called the golden rule -- "do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

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I don't remember learning "please" and "thank you" and "ma'am" and "sir".... I was taught to say those things as I learned to speak. They are so incredibly ingrained in my speech that if I don't say them I actually feel like I've missed something.

The first thing I actually remember being taught goes something like this... (Insert child's name for "daughter")

*ahem*

"Daughter, Daughter,
Strong and able,
Please take your elbows
Off the table."

*grins and curtsies* <img src="/images/graemlins/queen.gif" alt="" />


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"ma'am" and "sir". My parents are horrified today at the lack of kids being taught to say "Yes Ma'am" or "No Sir". I don't know if this is country-wide, but teachers are not ALLOWED to correct this oversight of respect in their classrooms in Georgia anymore!


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THe standard please and thank you followed yes ma'am no ma'am and sirs. My mom and grand mothers insisted on me where dresses ALL THE TIME so i had to learn how to sit "lady like".


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Quote:
I don't know if this is country-wide, but teachers are not ALLOWED to correct this oversight of respect in their classrooms in Georgia anymore!


A few years ago they tried here (Louisiana) to require kids in public schools to use "yes ma'am/sir" and "no ma'am/sir" when addressing teachers and administration, with some pretty strict consequences for failing to do so... And parents went absolutely batshit insane, indignant that the school board would "force" their children to address adults with respect. *sighs* These are the same parents who expect teachers to do their jobs for them, and yet condemn the teachers when they try. <img src="/images/graemlins/wall.gif" alt="" />


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And then wonder why kids don't respect adults anymore?!?
HMMMMM, I wonder. <img src="/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />


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