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From: Bama
Date: 04-04-2005, 07:40 PM (1 of 47)
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A 60 something friend of mine told me something that her 3 yo granddaughter said recently. Her gd was spending the night at her house and walked in on her while she was taking a bath. She stood there and stared at her grandma and asked, "Why do your boobs look like that?" She said she imagined her granddaughter was comparing them to her 20 something year old mother's breasts so she laughed and told her that hers were just old. The gd burst into tears. Grandma asked what was wrong and she said, "I don't want you to die". (She had been told that her great grandfather died because he was old.) My friend had a talk with her gd about how great-grandpa had died not just because he was old, but because he was sick too, and that grandma was young compared to how old great grandpa had been. My friend was relieved because at first she thought her granddaughter was crying because she thought she might look like that some day. 
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From: allie-oops
Date: 04-04-2005, 09:17 PM (2 of 47)
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That's hysterical!!!!!!!!!!!
"onward through the fog"
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 04-04-2005, 10:12 PM (3 of 47)
 how funny...
Chrys
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From: Magot
Date: 04-05-2005, 03:34 AM (4 of 47)
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When I first took my young nephew to the toilet ( he was 3) he had never seen an undressed woman. (fostered by a lovely Islamic family who were very reserved about such things). He looked at me, cocked his head to one side and said "Auntie Janice, where's your willie?" I explained that ladies didn't have them only men and boys. He gave me a knowing look and asked "Have you pulled it off?" Later we had further discussion in the newsagents about being able to buy fathers day cards for his Dad - which he proudly announced to the world was because "he had a willie" The poingnency (sp) behind this is that he was taken into care because his mother beat him for mastebating in the normal way that small boys of 2 do, telling him he would "pull it off" love and kisses, Jan
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From: Serenity
Date: 04-10-2005, 07:08 PM (5 of 47)
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I think I would have passed out... LOL And yes we are a very reserved people when it comes to dressing or undressing in front of anyone other than our spouses. I am even still a bit reserved about that one. And that has nothing to do with religion. But a whole lot to do with "fallen body syndrom".  Arub "The struggle is not greater than the goal". Be blessed. Stay encouraged.
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From: beachgirl
Date: 04-10-2005, 10:05 PM (6 of 47)
| That reminds me . When my nephew was about 2 or 3 he walked in when his gm ( my mom ) was changeing clothes. She was putting on her bra & he pointed to her breast & said " maw-maw, yours are laying down " She said " yes they do " hoping that would be the end of that. He looked up at her & said " my mama's stand up. " She laughed about that for years. He was just so matter of fact about it is what made it so funny to her. |
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From: DragonLady
Date: 04-10-2005, 10:51 PM (7 of 47)
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Same note, different verse.... When my son was about two, he suddenly became afraid of the moon. We were all completely lost -we just couldn't figure out why in the world he was afraid.  One night when he about four I was in the parking lot at the grocery with him -it was rather late, past his usual bedtime- when he said something about dead angels. I thought "dead angels???"; where in the world did that come from? I asked him to tell me more about it, and he pointed up at the big crescent ) moon. Turns out, he thought the edge of the moon was sharp, and would cut up flying angels.  Finally the mystery started to unravel. I had recieved a rather ugly statue of an angel peering out of the crescent moon as a gift. It was on a shelf in my living room for years. When I got home and looked at it, I realized that from a child's eye level it looked for all the world like the edge of the moon was cutting off her head!  So...we had to have a l-o-n-g lesson about the moon being a sphere and how it looks different at different phases. And I used the excuse to give the statue away so I could have the shelf space for something I liked. 
"No more twist! No more twist!"
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From: Hippiegirl
Date: 04-10-2005, 10:53 PM (8 of 47)
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This reminds me of when my nephew was about 4 years old and was just starting to get erections, you know the tiny ones little boys get. He decided to lay a wet washcloth over the tip and hold it up. He walked into the kitchen while we were doing dishes and said, "Look! Look what it can do !!!! It's holding it up !!" |
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From: ninifav
Date: 04-11-2005, 09:05 PM (9 of 47)
| Just returned from a week in Georgia with 2 grandchildren..Sophia (6yo) and the oldest gc, was snuggling with me and playing with my necklace...said so sweetly and softly, " you know, Nini, old skin is soft..." well, this "gal" (57yrs) almost peed all over herself in laughter!!!..Called my dh and told him that I looked in the mirror and didn't see an "old" person looking back!!! Don't you just LOVE it??? |
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From: shediditagen
Date: 04-11-2005, 11:23 PM (10 of 47)
| I was explaining to my youngest grand daughter when she was 4 or 5 years old that her mother, her two uncles and Auntie Carol were all my children when they were little. Kaiti looked up at me and asked, " Were you pretty when you had children?"........I was about 64 at the time and it is my favorite story. Betty |
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 04-12-2005, 12:57 PM (11 of 47)
When my DGD was about 2 1/2 she was learning about relationships and her Dad told her I was his Mom.. The next day she told her Mom to call me on the phone, and then she talked to me and asked if I was her Dads Mom. I told her yes, and then she said "well, I'm calling to tell you to come over here and spank him, He's being bad to me." He was teasing her about something and she didn't like it.. 
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From: Hogmami
Date: 04-12-2005, 01:43 PM (12 of 47)
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When my daughter was about 3, (a long time ago), she liked to watch Little House onthe Pairie. One day she asked me if I wore the long dresses and walked to school like Laura and her sisters. I told her I wasn't that old but to ask her grandmother. The next time my mom called Rosa asked her. My mom told her she wasn't that old. About a week later Rosa got a picture in the mail from my mom of my grandmother (great grandmother to Rosa) wearing those type of dresses. Rosa still has the picture and can remember trying to find some one that dressed like that. Another time, I had my back to her and she did something that she wasn't suppose to do. I told her I saw that. She asked me how when I wasn't looking at her. I told her I have eyes in the back of my head. That night she was brushing my hair and was pulling the hair back so she could see my eyes in the back of my head. I finally told her it was a mother thing. Carolyn
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From: Magot
Date: 04-12-2005, 01:44 PM (13 of 47)
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As a small child I was reputed to have asked my Dad if our neighbours were Catholics or Prostitutes. His reply is not printable.
love and kisses, Jan
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From: Magot
Date: 04-12-2005, 02:02 PM (14 of 47)
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When picking up my daughter from nursery (age 3 1/2) I was greeted by the ominously bright words of the teacher "Katie knows a lot about the human body, doesn't she?" Apparently they had been talking about the heart and asked if anyone knew where it was. Up goes my girlies' hand, "The heart is in the middle of your chest and it pushes the blood along the tubes to the lungs and then back to the heart and then all the way round your body and back to the heart again" (adequately describing the double pump function of the heart as taught to 13 year olds here) "Lovely Katie, does anyone know where your brain is?" replies my young medical student "The brain is in your head but a bit of it goes all down your spine and and all the way to the ends of your fingers and when you prick your finger the message goes all the way along and up the spine and to the brain and another message comes back to your mouth and makes you say 'Ow'" (thus disposing of the central nervous system but a bit hazy on higher brain functions) "Super," says the teacher' "Lets do some painting." I was relieved - being pregnant at the time I had instructed her on quite a lot and had a picture on my fridge of "the baby in Mummy's tummy" complete with umbilical cord and placenta. Her favourite read at that time was the St Johns Ambulance First Aid book and was constantly to be found applying presure and elevating the wound when her friends fell over and grazed themselves. They didn't appreciate this being more in mind of a magic cuddle. She is now at Uni studying Biology, majoring in physiology and pharmacology. No surprises there, then. love and kisses, Jan
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From: Dede
Date: 04-14-2005, 08:23 AM (15 of 47)
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My brother was getting dressed and his daughter, about 4 at the time, walked in on him, from behind, as he was pulling up his pants and said: You have a big butt, just like auntie Denise. Being the nicest brother, he called me not a moment too soon the share his joy. Gotta love him. |
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From: Sancin
Date: 04-14-2005, 08:06 PM (16 of 47)
Back in the dark ages when I was about 12 and in the throes of puberty, I was getting my 4 year old cousin and myself out of our swimsuits at our cottage. She looked at me at her eye level then up to my face and said "Hey, I have hair too, but mine is on my head!" 
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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From: Bama
Date: 04-16-2005, 05:24 PM (17 of 47)
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12 days after my daughter was born, I had to go back to the hospital because of heavy bleeding (part of amniotic sack was still inside). My son was 3 and was with me in the kitchen when I looked down and saw a large puddle of blood at my feet and all over my pants. He was scared so hubby and I explained to him that the blood was coming from the place where babies come out and that I would be okay. He calmed down so we thought he was satisfied with this explaination. Fast forward 15 months and my sister had a baby by C-section. My 5 yo niece had seen the staples across her tummy. I overheard her arguing with my son. She was saying, "Yes they do cut open the mommy's tummy to get it out!!!". My son was yelling, "No they don't! It comes out of their butt!!!" |
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From: Bama
Date: 04-16-2005, 05:30 PM (18 of 47)
| Once when I was nursing my daughter, my son (3yo) told my neice (5yo)that "mommy has milk on one side and orange juice on the other." |
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 04-19-2005, 04:56 PM (19 of 47)
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One night I was listening to my two youngest children (Jon 6 and Jay 3) saying their night-time prayers. Jay was rattling through his at a high rate of speed and I said, "Jay, you're going so fast I can't understand you." Jay looked at me in a superior way and replied, "God can." I gave up. Jay went right on. MariLynntx
Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
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From: Magot
Date: 04-19-2005, 05:18 PM (20 of 47)
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"God's got no bum. He can't have 'cos he can see all around him everywhere at once."
love and kisses, Jan
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From: MaryW
Date: 04-22-2005, 12:39 PM (21 of 47)
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My grandson who is 8 is learning about his body at school. Yesterday he told me that I couldn't eat if I didn't have intesticles. I had to turn my head, I was ready to bust out laughing. MaryW
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From: beachgirl
Date: 04-22-2005, 01:41 PM (22 of 47)
| That's a good one Mary. I'm still laughing. No way could I have not laughed when he said that. If I'd had a mouth full of food it would have been all over the place. I love listening to little kids. |
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From: Magot
Date: 04-22-2005, 02:07 PM (23 of 47)
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and he's right! You don't have intesticles! Neither does anybody else, but do we care?
love and kisses, Jan
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From: plrlegal
Date: 04-22-2005, 04:07 PM (24 of 47)
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The little guys in my family tend to get very confused when their parents are teaching them to say "no thank you", "please" and "thank you". Their most general response to any question is "no thank you please" or "yes thank you please" regardless of what you ask them for a while until they finally manage to figure out what response goes to what question. Patsy Patsy
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 04-22-2005, 05:38 PM (25 of 47)
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I think its wonderful that they are being taught to say those things. My grandchildren all are being taught the proper responses and believe me, from some of the tales my DD who is a teacher comes home with, it's getting to be a rather rare thing! MariLynntx
Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
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From: Bama
Date: 04-22-2005, 05:55 PM (26 of 47)
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When my son was first starting to talk, we would tell him to say thank you and he would say "thank me". It took a long time to break him from that. Especially since his grandmother thought it was so cute. He also had a hard time trying to remember if he sould say yes mam or yes sir. |
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 04-24-2005, 06:45 PM (27 of 47)
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My 2 sons always got complimented on their nice manners , and the fact they said please and thank you and mam and sir.. I just taught them what my mom and dad taught us.. Makes a difference, specially now, you don't hear many saying it nowadays.. I always thank the polite ones for being that way.. Makes them smile..
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From: Dede
Date: 04-25-2005, 07:54 AM (28 of 47)
The old ways are coming back. There's something to be said for that. 
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 04-25-2005, 11:15 AM (29 of 47)
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You are right Libby, manners make a world of difference! and saying "Thank you for your nice manners," really encourages my grandchildren, who are also being taught by their parents what they were taught by me. MariLynntx
Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
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From: MaryW
Date: 04-25-2005, 01:21 PM (30 of 47)
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When I am really mad at my grandson, he will say "yes ma'am, no ma'am" I could throttle him some days.
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From: Hippiegirl
Date: 04-25-2005, 02:05 PM (31 of 47)
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Speaking of manners.... when a man opens a door for me I am overwhelmed with happiness. Or if they let me go thru the door first at a grocery store. If men only knew how much that can make someones day these days, they'd do it more often. Here at the beach in the superficial SCal area, the men are incredibly rude and will actually knock you down to go first. I am always shocked when a man is that unaware. Believe me, Mom's teach your sons manners!!!
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From: Magot
Date: 04-25-2005, 02:11 PM (32 of 47)
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Part of our behaviour management training was to ask someone to "do something,please" and pause slightly before saying "Thank you." Insertion of the thank-you idicates that you know they will do what they are told and you appreciate it. Then turn away and give them 'take-up time' to give them time to think "o yes I am going to do it," when you can say "thank you " again. Sounds weird - but it works - works on adults too! love and kisses, Jan
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From: Magot
Date: 04-25-2005, 02:19 PM (33 of 47)
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I always taught my kids to hold doors open for people but after a while they get fed up of being treated as an invisible doorman by the older generation. Few adults say thank you these days. It is a school policy of ours to say thank-you as much as possible. I like to be appreciated - I'm sure other people do too! Bless 'em I had 4 year 5 kids coming in with a pre-emptive strike on Friday and thanking me in advance for watering their cress seeds on Sunday! (our church meets in the school so I said I'd pop up and water their seeds) The Head of PE was teaching their science lesson and he put the fear of God into them that they had better thank me or He Was Going to Know! Some more came to thank me today, little cherubs. We try to have an active school policy of writing as many good notes as we can manage in the school diaries that the children take back and forwards from school. Sadly, some kids make it very hard to find anything nice to say. love and kisses, Jan
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From: smith972
Date: 04-25-2005, 04:19 PM (34 of 47)
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12 days after my daughter was born, I had to go back to the hospital because of heavy bleeding (part of amniotic sack was still inside). " My then 12 yr old was in the delivery room with me when i had my last child....You should have seen her eyes as she watched the baby being born...but the funny part is after the baby was born they were cleaning me up...my exhusband and oldest daughter were with the new baby, my mom right next to me and my 10 yr old wanted to come in so she came in and i could tell she was shocked by all the blood she only stayed for a little while and then left what i found out a few days later was that she called her aunt and told her that i was bleeding and would not stop and that she needed her to come to the hospital really quick to save her mom...... How cute.... Jada |
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 04-25-2005, 05:10 PM (35 of 47)
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I don't remember much about the 4th grade, but I do remember my 4th grade school teacher. She stood there in front of 20 little southern kids and told them, "Don't say 'yes, ma'am' and "no ma'am' to me. That's a sloppy southern way to speak. You say 'yes, Mrs. Bagley' and 'no, Mrs. Bagley' to me." This, to a classroom full of young southern children who had been taught, practically on pain of death, to say politely, 'yes ma'am' and 'no ma'am' to any female over the age of 19!! We thought she was crazy! I went home and told my mother and grandmama what Mrs. Bagley had said. My grandmama just laughed and said, "Someone should tell that woman that if 'ma'am' is good enough for the Queen of England it's good enough for a Texas schoolteacher." My mother said, "Just do as the woman says in her schoolroom but behave properly when you get out of there." MariLynntx
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 04-25-2005, 05:29 PM (36 of 47)
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I remember this 4th grade schoolteacher I had. She stood up in front of 21 children and said, "DON'T say 'yes,ma'am' to me. That is a sloppy southern way of speaking. To ME you say, 'yes, Miss Bagley' and 'no, Miss Bagley.' This to 20 little southern children who had been taught, on pain of death, to say 'yes ma'am' and 'no ma'am' to any female over the age of 19! I went home and told my mother and grandmama what she had said, and my grandmama laughed and told me, "Someone should tell that woman that if ma'am is good enough for the Queen of England it is good enough for a Texas schoolteacher." My mother looked at me sternly and said, "Say what the woman wants in the classroom, but when you get out of there, use your PROPER manners." I noticed that mother called her 'the woman' NOT 'the lady' which told me that Mother didn't think she was well-bred if she didn't even know that well-brought-up children addressed a grown-up lady as 'ma'am.' MariLynntx
Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
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From: DorothyL
Date: 04-26-2005, 08:05 AM (37 of 47)
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Bama -- It's funny how differently people react to others and how they perceive other's behavior. The few times I've been in the south -- never Alabama -- I didn't think people were particularly nice or friendly. Especially the young people seem downright rude. Maybe it's my accent. I even had a clerk in a convenience store call her friends out of the back room to "listen to her talk." When I was at a World's Fair in Tennessee several years ago the kids working there certainly needed lessons on how to treat visitors!! They actually mocked people from other cultures to their faces and the locals seemed to feel that was ok. I grew up in Central California and have lived in red neck upstate New York for years and people are just people in both places. Not particularly friendly or rude. It just depends on the situation. In the Midwest, on the other hand, I was amazed at how friendly, considerate and just plain nice people are (at least to your face). My daughter moved to New York City about three years ago for law school and when I asked her if people there are as rude as they are reputed to be she said absolutely not. People are very nice and helpful, she says, as long as you respect their space. They just have a "forthright" way of expressing themselves. And I'd always heard -- even from other Canadians -- that the people in Montreal are very rude but I thought they were wonderful. I fell in love with the city and the people there. I think half of it is just how you look at things yourself and your own expectations. One thing I've found, now that I'm old enough to slow down myself, is that patience and consideration are such rare qualities anymore that they absolutely blow people away. Try saying "go ahead of me I'm in no hurry" in the fabric line at JoAnn's some time. It doesn't matter what part of the country you are in, people are amazed to hear it. Dorothy |
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 04-26-2005, 09:27 AM (38 of 47)
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I remember a friend saying his daughter was uncomfortable with the fact that her date was opening and closing the car door for her. This young man had been brought up with manners, and even tho the daughter had been too, her high school dates never did the most common things like that. She was like how do I act? She felt funny. I tried to bring my children up with manners. In high school they still said please and thank you, but I noticed some of the old fashion manners were not there. But something I did notice was they would say things about my parents and their manners. Like dad always walking on the street side of mom, opening doors for her and the rest of the women. Waiting to make sure all of us girls were seated before sitting down. Having the food being passed in one direction when we were eating. Waiting till everyone was seated to begin the meal. You know as a kid it sometimes drove me crazy, but now I am glad my parents had the old manners and grace that I grew up with. Summer Summer
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 04-26-2005, 12:00 PM (39 of 47)
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I have been over some parts of the world--Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and a lot of the mainland U.S, particularly the south and the west, and there are nice people everywhere, but I could always distinguish the ones from the south and southwest and not just by the accent, which is usually distinctive! I realize that my own is definitely so, even though I am 78 now and can sing in 6 languages; I still can't lose that way of speaking. In fact, I tend to turn off the tv if I get anyone who is harsh voiced and talks twice as fast as normal. I reckon my ear just turns itself off! But I agree with y'all: I'm glad I was raised with respectful manners and raised my children that way. I hear my daughters and daughters-in-law saying, "Don't be rude; say MISS Margaret..." to one of my elderly friends, and I'm glad they're raising my grandchildren that way. They all say, "yes, ma'am" and "no, ma'am" to parents and other older people. MariLynntx Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
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From: plrlegal
Date: 04-26-2005, 01:28 PM (40 of 47)
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For my own experience, my mother definitely raised us (all 14) with manners. It has just been in the last few years that she has stopped correcting her children's manners, as a matter of fact. However, I find that when I'm courteous, most people will respond in kind. I always try to be polite in stores, restaurants, etc. I don't think that the use of manners, politeness and courtesy has ever harmed anyone, whether other people respond likewise or not and most of the time, I'm not in that big of a hurry. In fact, I have reached a point in my life that always being in a hurry and a rush is too much of a bother. Patsy Patsy
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From: Hippiegirl
Date: 04-27-2005, 03:04 AM (41 of 47)
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I remember a friend saying his daughter was uncomfortable with the fact that her date was opening and closing the car door for her. This young man had been brought up with manners, and even tho the daughter had been too, her high school dates never did the most common things like that. She was like how do I act? She felt funny. I tried to bring my children up with manners. In high school they still said please and thank you, but I noticed some of the old fashion manners were not there. But something I did notice was they would say things about my parents and their manners. Like dad always walking on the street side of mom, opening doors for her and the rest of the women. Waiting to make sure all of us girls were seated before sitting down. Having the food being passed in one direction when we were eating. Waiting till everyone was seated to begin the meal. You know as a kid it sometimes drove me crazy, but now I am glad my parents had the old manners and grace that I grew up with. Summer Men walking on the street side is no nice. I love that too, but the one that is great is when they wait till your seated to sit themselves. I remember that happening once and I stopped myself from sitting because I coudn't understand at first, why he was waiting for me, then it dawned on me.... I was so flattered. I've always said, when men are men, women can be women. I'm hippiegirl, but really it's only cause I'm a flower child at heart, born too late for the movement. Not into womens lib really, but I certainly do like men to be men. Manners tells alot... I remembered one thing about the things kids say. When my dad had a heart attack I remember my mom saying "They're going to give him a stress test to see how bad his heart is.." I said after a long pause, "Well, how they gonna piss him off?" (my father is just like Archie Bunker) My mother laughed so hard, and I was 34 when I said it. Sometimes adults say the darndest things too...
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From: DorothyL
Date: 04-27-2005, 07:36 AM (42 of 47)
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All this discussion about manners is fine but good manners aren't worth spit if they are just window dressing to hide the jerk inside. I'd rather be respected for my ideas and accomplishments than have someone hold the door for me. Remember some of those good manners originated because women were considered incapable of much but looking good -- that is middle class white women anyway. If you have daughters, Hippiegirl, you might think equal pay (It's still 76 cents to the dollar) is more important than a guy waiting for the woman to sit down first. Just a thought. Dorothy |
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 04-27-2005, 12:12 PM (43 of 47)
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I, my mother, and my two grandmothers were all middle class white women, and believe me, we were expected to do much more than look good. Well, I won't include myself, although that certainly described my status, but I did a lot of things outside the norm because when I was 12 I developed a big voice and it was decided that I should have voice lessons. But my mother and my grandmothers were expected to do much more than look good. They had children, raised children, taught them manners and religion, ran a house without the conveniences of today; even when they had a maid occasionally, (usually to do the ironing) they scrubbed, mopped, washed laboriously, hung clothes outside on a line. I did that until I had my 6th child and announced that NOTHING would be bought until we bought a dryer! They cooked, canned, preserved food; very seldom had they any kitchen help. They sewed almost everything (I remember my grandmother's treadle machine) and hand-made baby clothes. I remember when my mother bought an electric sewing machine! But men still opened doors and walked on the street side, not because their wives were incapable of doing anything but looking good, but because there still might be rearing horses frightened by motorcars and muddy water splashed from unpaved streets. I am much older than y'all.....MariLynntx
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From: Hippiegirl
Date: 04-27-2005, 01:56 PM (44 of 47)
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All this discussion about manners is fine but good manners aren't worth spit if they are just window dressing to hide the jerk inside. I'd rather be respected for my ideas and accomplishments than have someone hold the door for me. Remember some of those good manners originated because women were considered incapable of much but looking good -- that is middle class white women anyway. If you have daughters, Hippiegirl, you might think equal pay (It's still 76 cents to the dollar) is more important than a guy waiting for the woman to sit down first. Just a thought. Dorothy Oh believe me, I'm all for womens rights, but I'm not an angry woman. I've seen too many women who are deeply resentful and angry about how men get paid more than we do and on and on. Really, if the men don't treat me well, they're history. But I will always love it when a man walks on the street side and waits for me to sit and opens car doors for me. I have a VERY high intuition (Telepathic) and I know a bad seed when I'm around one. But really, if we think were giving up our independance for men who are chivalrous, we aren't trusting them much. Men always have a jerk side. But I only hang with the nice ones (who rarely open doors for me) :( |
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From: Jessica3
Date: 05-02-2005, 05:58 PM (45 of 47)
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I wished Men still opened doors for us Woman I am teaching my DS manners. it is hard in this world we live in today.. I am 23 years old and I still remember my mother leaving us at the park while she went food shopping at IGA's. Never once worring about us.. Of course we lived in Upper Michigain at the time.. Jessica
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From: MariLynnTX
Date: 05-02-2005, 10:07 PM (46 of 47)
I was listening to FoxNews and they were talking about the Jessica Lundsford law and I was thinking, "What has happened to our country?" When I was a child we never locked the doors;occasionally hooked the screen doors, but not all the time, only if we were going on a trip. And Mother would go to the store and we would play, like you, in the park across the street. Anything goes now, and some of it is awful.  MariLynntx
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 05-02-2005, 10:31 PM (47 of 47)
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I remember going from Mich to Calif. I was a teenager, had an older sister a teenager and the younger sister who was maybe 6. (The Beatles had just become a BAND here) We had the good ole station wagon. You know how kids fight on these trip so I got one seat the older sister another. When we were not fightening we would sit in the back of the station wagon and write signs. Passing cars would laugh and honk their horns. We would write HELP!!!!!, Save Us!!!!!!, etc. If you saw someone do that now a days the swat team would be flying over head. I remember in this trip being in the desert and my mom told us to sit quiet, put down out signs and behave. We wonder what???? Turns out Hells Angels was going to something in Calif. and you could see this huge group of bikes coming up behind us. That was my parents biggest worry, and they passed us and all waved at us girls. My parents of course nodded back at them, but I knew mom was scared. Summer Summer
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