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Teaching Table Manners

post #1 of 2
10/20/05 at 7:26am
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When your two-year-old spits carrot at you or gets more food on her face than in her mouth, you tend to forgive and forget. But if the story hasn't changed by the time she is ten, you're not indulgent any more. You're worried. When will she be fit to be part of society, as we know it?

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post #2 of 2
10/20/05 at 7:30am
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Don't make mealtimes into a battleground and constantly pick on your children about all the things that they are doing wrong. This is a surefire way of killing the appetite, both yours and theirs. In addition, it's not going to make them any more interested in becoming part of polite society.
I'm the first to admit I was born in a barn with almost no manners of any kind, but my dh did this and the main thing he did was cause me to eat faster and leave the table in tears or to eat secretly so I wouldn't be picked on while trying to eat. Picking at someone constantly while they are trying to eat is a sure way to bring resentment and tears. And really, if gobbling and slurping are ill mannered where does that put sending someone running in tears from the table from being picked on?
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