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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 5 year old knows silverware placement. It's called manners. [/quote]

So poor people can't have manners? Because we live in a studio apt, and don't have a table. I doubt my 12 yr old knows exactly how to set a table. But she knows how to walk into the kitchen and ask "what can I do to help?", to clear her plate from someone else's table, and to say "thank you for having me" when leaving. She says please and thank you as appropriate. She just wouldn't know how to set a table, unless someone did one p,ace setting as an example for her to copy. I think she's got manners though. [/quote]

Not that poster.  I grew up poor, too.  And we didn't do everything properly at every meal for sure.  But I was taught proper etiquette.  My mother taught me place settings, and which fork and spoon to eat with when there were multiple.  Her goal was to make us comfortable socializing with the "Queen or the maid."   And FWIW, my grandmother was a maid.  The other was a waitress in a bar.

You can do it as a stand alone lesson.  It's not as fast or as solid as doing it nightly.  But don't underestimate the lessons.  [/quote]

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