Humans Are Forgetting Manners and Simple

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Humans are forgetting manners and simple values. I hate to go to a restaurant and see a family on their cell phones and I pods texting. Where have manners gone to? As a child we ate as a family, and the table is where we talked and discussed our day. Because of society today, parents spend more time on their cell phones than with their children; they are always texting, on social networking such as Facebook. I hate to go to a restaurant and see a family on their cellphones and I pods texting. Where has have manners gone to? As a child we ate as a family, and the table is where we talked and discussed our day. Manners are different today. We fail to teach our children, and grandchildren respect for our elders, in that I mean holding a door open, saying please, thank you, and no thank you. We also need to teach our children to say yes ma’am and no ma’am. Yes sir and no sir. We all need to take time with a simple “hello, how are you?” when we come in contact with others. What happened to “excuse me” when others are talking? Parents no longer take the time to teach their children manners. A simple “hi, how are you?” means a lot to a person, that someone would take the time to notice you. Maybe that person has had a bad day or even thoughts of suicide and by speaking to that person may have him/her thinking, “Hey, I am somebody.” You may have saved a life of somebody just by one kind
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