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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not taught anymore.

I've helped run Girl Scout cookie booths. I'll tell the girls if they want to eat a snack, they need to move away from the table. Their parents will contradict me. "Larla needs a little snack, it's no big deal, she can stay here." I'll tell the girls they need to stand up and present the customer with an attitude of preparedness, rather than be seated and chatting with their friends. Their parents will contradict me. "Larla's tired. We're here for two hours. It's no big deal to sit." I'll tell the girls they can't play under/around the table, if they need a break grab a friend and an adult and go for a little walk. Their parents will contradict me. "No one's buying anything right now, as soon as someone comes up they'll stop."[/quote]

Why are you telling other people's kids what to do.  That's at least as rude as any of the behavior being attributed to kids on this thread.  [/quote]

See -- it's parents like this that excuse kids' behavior under the guise of how DARE you tell MY kid what to do??

I think it used to be more acceptable that all parents could gently correct all kids --without risking a beatdown or a lawsuit or something. PP is instructing kids on how to run a cookie sale table -- don't sit at the table, don't snack right there, don't play under the table. It is precisely what she is supposed to instruct them on as a Girl Scout leader. Yet you act like she's telling the kids to do their homework and make their beds and go to church.[/quote]

There are actually rules about how the booths have to be run as well as teaching kids to use manners. It's against the rules (at least in my council) to eat at the booth. That's not just my personal opinion that it's rude to eat at the booth. I've had parents not step up and correct their kids' mistakes, but I'm grateful that I've never had any contradict me like pp. 
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