Teach Your Children Manners!
Wendy Komancheck
Two-minute Tutor: Teaching your kids manners
Word Count: 433
Whatever happened to manners? I was amazed when I went to the Ephrata Community Pool a few weekends ago. I had my young son with me, and one boy took our swimming noodle. Another child purposely splashed water at us, and he continued to do so after we told him to stop. I talked to the pool manager about it before we left for the day. She was sympathetic and instructed me to make sure the guards are aware of these situations. I must say I was impressed by this young woman’s tenacity.
A few days later, my husband, my children, and I went to the pool again. We had a great time playing in the pool until four to five “big” middle school kids started a water battle in the shallow end where we were playing.
“Hey,” I called up to the lifeguard. “Can you tell these kids to move to the middle of the pool? My sons can’t swim.” My one son was by the wall at the very shallow end, almost overcome by these teens.
The lifeguard sympathized, “Those kids are here all the time. Can you take your kids to the baby pool?”
I was dumbfounded. “No,” I said, “I can’t. My boys are too big for the baby pool. Besides, I paid for a membership as much as those [bigger] kids’ parents did. I have every right to be at the very shallow end of the pool. I complained to the manager about this…”
Her reply: “Well, you can complain to the manager again.”
Amazing---I was getting mad now. “No, she told me to say something to the lifeguard. And you are supposed to do something about it!”
I had to give a couple of angry stares at the feeble lifeguard until she told the kids to move away.
The whole point is typical of society at large. People and their offspring are getting ruder by the generation. The bigger ones overwhelm the smaller ones, and the ones in authority avoid confrontation at all costs.
What am I urging you, as parents, to do? Teach your kids some manners, or if your teens are in positions of authority as a camp counselor or lifeguard, teach them how to do their job. Lifeguarding and camp counseling is not just a job or a time to work on your tan. It’s a job that requires vigilance and safety.
Teach your older kids to be considerate of parents and their young children. Teach your teens to use manners, be considerate, and to share. In other words, teach your kids manners!
Two-minute Tutor: Teaching your kids manners
Word Count: 433
Whatever happened to manners? I was amazed when I went to the Ephrata Community Pool a few weekends ago. I had my young son with me, and one boy took our swimming noodle. Another child purposely splashed water at us, and he continued to do so after we told him to stop. I talked to the pool manager about it before we left for the day. She was sympathetic and instructed me to make sure the guards are aware of these situations. I must say I was impressed by this young woman’s tenacity.
A few days later, my husband, my children, and I went to the pool again. We had a great time playing in the pool until four to five “big” middle school kids started a water battle in the shallow end where we were playing.
“Hey,” I called up to the lifeguard. “Can you tell these kids to move to the middle of the pool? My sons can’t swim.” My one son was by the wall at the very shallow end, almost overcome by these teens.
The lifeguard sympathized, “Those kids are here all the time. Can you take your kids to the baby pool?”
I was dumbfounded. “No,” I said, “I can’t. My boys are too big for the baby pool. Besides, I paid for a membership as much as those [bigger] kids’ parents did. I have every right to be at the very shallow end of the pool. I complained to the manager about this…”
Her reply: “Well, you can complain to the manager again.”
Amazing---I was getting mad now. “No, she told me to say something to the lifeguard. And you are supposed to do something about it!”
I had to give a couple of angry stares at the feeble lifeguard until she told the kids to move away.
The whole point is typical of society at large. People and their offspring are getting ruder by the generation. The bigger ones overwhelm the smaller ones, and the ones in authority avoid confrontation at all costs.
What am I urging you, as parents, to do? Teach your kids some manners, or if your teens are in positions of authority as a camp counselor or lifeguard, teach them how to do their job. Lifeguarding and camp counseling is not just a job or a time to work on your tan. It’s a job that requires vigilance and safety.
Teach your older kids to be considerate of parents and their young children. Teach your teens to use manners, be considerate, and to share. In other words, teach your kids manners!
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