PEOPLE BEHAVING BADLY

As a card-carrying AARP member, I grew up in a generation where good manners were the norm and euphemisms expected. A woman was "with child" and heaven forbid you used the word hooters to describe female anatomy! We wore hats, gloves, and stockings to church and modeled our voices in Jacqueline Kennedy's hushed tones. This week we witnessed Joe Wilson's interruption of President Obama's speech, Serena Williams verbally accosting a line judge, and Kanye West stealing Taylor Swift's incredible moment at the VMA Awards.

My elementary,junior high, and high school report cards listed DEPORTMENT as a criteria for proper classroom behavior. Although my academic graces were stellar, my chatty disposition earned me a NI [needs improvement] one six weeks; therefore, I was excluded from some of my favorite activities for weeks. As a member of many school organizations, I remember manners being part of the "hidden curriculum" in school. Respect for others, tone of voice, appropriate greetings to elders/adults, and fair play were attitudes we learned and used in our daily lives. That "Conduct" element on report cards just does not seem to be as important a factor today as compared with earlier generations.

Britain is so concerned with the lack of civility that a report funded by philanthropists called Civility Lost and Found explores the lack of civility in British society and addresses the definition of civility and reports what schools, business, and communities can do to promote civility.

Manners is a word parents often use to teach children respect and proper conduct or behavior and politeness. Family mealtime is important to teach children proper table manners, but if you're taxed for time . . .
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