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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you're going to get burned on here, but I completely understand.  I have two kids - both raised with the same lessons and stress on manners.  
My daughter is great - easily says please and thank you and makes appropriate pleasantries.  If she were my only kid, I'd be praising myself for my wonderful parenting and assuming that the fact that "around age 2 and 3" I thought her to be "loud and proud" of her manners.

She's not my only kid, though, so I realize that not all kids are alike and things that seem like very simple manners for most kids is absolutely debilitating for others.
DS is 13.  He's been in speech therapy since he was a toddler and has tremendous anxiety in those situations.  The only advice I can give is to keep going.  Practice as much as possible with safe people.  I'm a lot stricter with him when around friends and family that have known him for years - he doesn't get away for a whispered thanks with his aunts or even with his soccer coach.  In those situations I'll make him go back and look him in the eyes and say thanks. In a restaurant, I'll remind him in advance, and praise him when he does well.  He's getting better.  We'll keep working on it.

Good luck (both with your kid and with the comments you're sure to get here.)[/quote]

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