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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother was a stickler for manners when I was a kid and I remember asking why she didn’t correct me any more when I was like 17 (as I self corrected by taking my elbows of the table).  She says she figured out habits were largely formed by 13 and she had more important things to spend her influence on.  And I (and she) seem to feel me and my sisters turned out well so I say 13 — maybe 15 at the outside.  Unless they ask for your help.  I asked my parents for help with my first cover letters I think; that’s manners of a sort.[/quote]

What’s wrong with your mother caring about manners? What kind of manners are we talking about here?[/quote]

Nothing wrong with caring about manners; I’m incredibly grateful for my mother training me to be polite my whole childhood!  Having it as second nature had made the social aspects of adult life easy and natural.  And to answer what sort of manners I’m referring to: table manners, consideration for elders, how to carry on a conversation the other person enjoys, how to be a considerate host/guest, how to show appreciation for others, how to live peacefully in a shared household, etc.  No idea what OP means by manners though.[/quote]

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