How do you teach your kids manners?
I look forward to hearing your suggestions for this one!!
Please and Thank You and You’re Welcome we’ve been working on since the kids could talk. They don’t always say them, but for the most part, the kids have those phrases down.
But how about teaching them to respond politely to compliments? Or not interrupting while you’re on the phone or talking with someone? Or sharing? Or not talking only about themselves and monopolizing the time when they’re with adults or other kids?
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There's nothing that touches my heart more than a polite little kid. And that being said, I LOVE teaching mine manners. Probably the greatest tool I've found yet is a song. (My kids LOVE to sing) I have a CD called "Sounds Like Fun" from Discovery Toys (of course, and yes, I can order it for those who are interested :) The CD is a re-make of a record that was done forever ago and teaches kids things like counting, months of the year, different alphabet songs, and yes, MANNERS! It's called the manners song, and my kids LOVE it and always ask for it in the car, and now in the house too since I put it on my iPod. Whenever we need to remember what to say in a certain situation, we remember the song lyrics.....works like a charm.
Also, we just practice! Like, before we go to dinner, while we're in the car, we run over "reminders" of what they can and cannot do and what we expect of them. Another thing we do is role play. I'll say "OK Charlie, you have a very pretty dress on today, so when we go to church if someone says "you look so pretty Charlie!" What do you say? Then I walk her through it. I also got a lot of great ideas on how to teach manners and raise moral kids in general from the book "Let the Children Come Along the Virtuous Way" by the Ezzos. I've mentioned that book in another post too. It's awesome.
Nothing makes me more proud as a mom than when people tell me that I have polite kids.....its funny that they seem so surprised! :)
Good idea with reminding the kids ahead of time. We do that as we walk into the library or church -- what do we do with the other kids? We share. They know exactly what they need to do. I'll start doing that with other things as well!
Oh, and how much does "Sounds like Fun" cost?
We, too, have used sing-songs for the task. I think Barney has a good little show on manners that the kids really took to. I know--uh! Barney!
That, and a lot of reminding. I have had to be consistently reminding them these 5 1/2 years, and they are now finally able to remember on their own most of the time. It is rewarding when I don't have to even be in the room for them to talk politely to someone else. I
We do a lot of reminding of manners around here. And before we get somewhere telling the kids what to expect and to remember to answer people's questions, please/thank you, don't interrupt when mom and dad are talking, etc. Also, I try to always model the things I would want them to say- I don't mean I use my manners (I do)- but like I say, "if you want that you should say, Abigail, can I please play with that toy when you are done?" just because sometimes I just don't think at a young age they have the words so I give them the words.
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