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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you need a manners class to teach your kids some manners?  [/quote]

Maybe you perfect people don’t. I never held myself out to be perfect. My 7th grader eats pretty sloppily despite the fact that I’m not modeling sloppy eating myself. [/quote]
 :roll:   Who said I was perfect. I'm far from it. But manners at the table isn't that hard to teach if you've been doing it since they were young. Like with anything, you just start drilling it into them at a young age.

Most kids also pickup their manners from their peers, so even if you send them to to this class, if most of his peers are a certain way, he will revert to that way.

When my kids were younger (ES age) we had several older people at nice restaurants tell us how well behaved they were.  They don't behave this well at home at the table, but we drilled into them how to behave at restaurants from a young age.

Part of it is just maturity, too.

I know of one parent who sent her DS to such a class, and this kid and the parents are kind of quirky.  My DS is friendly with the kid, but DS said a lot of kids think he's weird, and the kid doesn't have many friends.   I guess they didn't do a good job of how to fit in with your peers and make friends. [/quote]

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