https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 18 May 2026 05:30:28 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teaching-manners#post-2660063 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 13:01:17 +0000 Mamaof2 2660063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinbaderin: @2PeasinaPod: this is a hug pet peeve of mine! You don't have to say please but it better be a request and not a demand!</p> <p>Get me water mommy! (wheres the angry face emoji when I need it?)</p> <p>Can I have water mommy? :grin: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teaching-manners#post-2659978 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 11:56:46 +0000 hellobeeboston 2659978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yes, especially with my now 4 year old... we're always enforcing please, thank you, excuse me, etc.</p> <p>lately I've been teaching him to hold the door when we're out &amp; about in public for others. </p> <p>manners with little brother has been more challenging though... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teaching-manners#post-2659969 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 11:48:32 +0000 Alivoo01 2659969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 3 and he knows to say please, thank you, bless you, and sorry. I have to remind him sometimes, or prompt him like "what do you say?", but he does it. He also knows to say hi and bye when we arrive/see someone. We're working on the ma'am and sir. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teaching-manners#post-2659834 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:57:30 +0000 Miss Ariel 2659834@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dd is almost 2. She'll say please, thank you, bless you, and sorry.... But not always in the right context. Ha!</p> <p>If she takes something she wants she'll say thank you, since clearly you meant to give it to her. Or when her baby brother is crying she'll tell him sorry, since you cry when someone hurts you.</p> <p>In the future I know Dh wants her to use ma'am and sir, but we haven't started that yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teaching-manners#post-2659832 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:57:07 +0000 2PeasinaPod 2659832@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS1 is 4, and I always have to remind him about please and thank you, but for some reason, he always remembers excuse me when he burps/farts or needs to interrupt me speaking to tell me something important. </p> <p>@erinbaderin: we also try to make sure he phrases his needs as questions instead of demands. He's slowly getting better at this.</p> <p>I also write thank you notes for him, but he signs his name to every one, which gets him involved in knowing we thank people for the things that they give to us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teaching-manners#post-2659819 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:50:24 +0000 erinbaderin 2659819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>B is not quite 3, and very shy, but we're working on acknowledging people when they talk to you, at least waving hello and goodbye. We're also working on not interrupting, I'm trying to get him to remember to say "Excuse me" when he wants my attention and then wait until I'm done talking to take his turn. Oh, and phrasing requests as questions instead of demands </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teaching-manners#post-2659813 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:41:54 +0000 jhd 2659813@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 2. We've got please and thank you down. I prompt him to say hi and bye to people if he doesn't remember and we are working on excuse me and sorry. Interested to hear suggestions from others! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teaching-manners#post-2659811 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:39:17 +0000 catgirl 2659811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD is 2. We ask her to say hello and goodbye to people, though we don't push it if she doesn't want to yet. We also give her the option to wave. </p> <p>She almost always has to sit at the table until everyone is done, although usually she takes the longest. If she finishes early we have some quiet toys she can use at the the table. The exceptions to this are if we are at someone else's house and other kids are getting up and playing. </p> <p>She says bless you if people sneeze, excuse me if she burps, and uses please and thank you when asking for things/receiving things with minimal prompting. </p> <p>I, obviously, am the one writing thank you cards on her behalf but she colors on them or decorates them with stickers. </p> <p>We don't say sir/ma'am but are trying to work on her addressing people by name. </p> <p>It's all a work in progress. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/teaching-manners#post-2659618 Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:30:00 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 2659618@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Have you made any efforts to teach your LO manners outside of please and thank you? </p> <p>I remind her to greet and say goodbye to others, especially older people like her great-grandmother. I don't tell her to say it, but I always address people with sir/ma'am. I usually have her sit at the dinner table until everyone is finished (or close to it, she's only 3). But we've unfortunately not done much in the way of thank you cards and the like. </p>