My girls have been taught to say Please, Thank You, Yes Mam & Excuse Me. If we go into a store, I tell them what we are going in the store for, and not to ask for anything. They will ask to go to the toy isle, but unless they bring their own money, I am not getting them anything. My girls would not dare ask their grandparents for anything at a store, they went to visit them last summer for a week, and I emailed a month early, a list of foods the girls usually ate (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and what they did not like. Nether of my girls like crunchy peanut butter, and I put it on the list of "Not Liked Foods". My FIL fixed my oldest a Crunchy PB sandwich, and she said no thank you. He was going to not let her get a ice cream when they went out, because she did not eat the sandwich. (grandparents had not seen the girls for almost 2 1/2 years) But then he said, because they were here on vacation, he changed his mind, and let her have the ice cream. I asked him, why he did not let her make a Ketchup Sandwich, he said "But it has no nutritional value. I thought, "So does eating nothing". My girls will choose fruit over candy, and milk over soda.
If my girls sassed back, they got a pop on the mouth, terrible twos in the store, pop on the butt, mis-behaved at home, sent to their room. Youngest did not listen to her Daddy last Sunday, and TV was taken away the rest of that day and all the next day. We have zero tolerance in our home, my girls are 7 & 9, and my hubby & I are older parents, and we will not have our children disrespect anyone or be disrespectful out in public.
Now back to our original program......
