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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're rich, OP.  Maybe you don't come from rich, maybe you don't feel rich, but you ARE rich.

Teach your kid to eat at the table, elbows off, chew with mouth closed, don't talk with food in mouth.  Butter only the bread you're about to chew. Don't butter the whole piece of bread and don't put a pat of butter on your plate to butter from.  Napkin in lap.  Please and thank you to waitstaff.  Don't eat until everyone at the table has been served. Teach to eat neatly.  Don't stuff your mouth full.  Be willing to try new foods. Know how to say "I hate that crap!" nicely.

Teach your kid manners.  Get up for old, handicapped, pregnant people.  Hold the door for everyone with a smile. People who are poor are always out for themselves and are always desperate to get everything they can free.  Only take one sample.

My DD has never taken swim lessons. She figured it out herself.  But yes, know how to play sports.  Doesn't have to win awards, but you don't want to be picked last for a team because you suck.[/quote]

Serious question. If you're not supposed to butter the whole piece of bread and you're not supposed to put a pat of butter on your bread plate, what do you do with it? Do you just not use butter? Ask someone to pass the butter every time you want a bite of bread? The habit I picked up from client lunches at my first "professional" job was to take a pat of butter, and then eat the bread by breaking off a bite-sized piece, butter that bite individually, and then put the whole thing in my mouth. I don't butter the whole thing at once, and I never take a bite out of my bread and then put the rest back down. Is that wrong?[/quote]

Lol, there is a butter plate on the table.  You use your knife to portion off some butter, then butter the piece of bread you're about to bite. Put down your knife, bite your bread, put down the rest of the bread, chew and swallow.  Then when you're ready for another bite of bread, butter than bit of bread. You can bite your bread and put the rest down on the bread plate. That's fine.[/quote]
This is not right. 
If there is a butter knife with the dish, use it to put butter on your bread plate of the side of your dinner plate if there is no bread plate. Then you break off a piece of the bread, put the larger whole piece of bread back on the plate, use your own knife to get butter from your plate and butter that tiny portion (hold it with thumb and forefinger). Put down your knife (once it's used on the plate, NEVER the table) Eat the bite of bread. pull off another bite and butter from the glob of butter in your plate. When you're out of butter,  use the butter knife to put more butter on your plate. Repeat. [/quote]

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