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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep doing what you're doing.  The kids with excellent manners have bad days too.

Also, stop being so hard on your kid.  Anxiety makes kids screw up.[/quote]

Yes, I know. But it’s not just a few bad days. It’s almost like he does it on purpose to be funny or something. He can articulate how he should behave, but then can’t or won’t actually do it. -OP[/quote]

Actions have consequences.  I started with manners from the get go.

I had one son who thought it was funny to snort like a pig so one night I set up a card table and told all three children that a time who ate like a pig would sit at the piggy table.
 
Of course, "piggy" son laughed and started snorting.  I picked. Up his plate, no silverware, and poured his milk into a bowl and told him to feel free to eat like a pig.  It only happened once and after that all three used their table manners and knew that other social manners also had to be observed

People are judged by their manners.
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