I've been working to drill these into Charlie... he says them upon prompting, and also sometimes on his own. But not all the time! Working on it. 
Do you make your LO say "please," "thank you," and "excuse me"? How is it going?
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we are pretty constant about demanding "please" when he asks for something. not as consistent about "thank you" because sometimes his shy smile is enough of a thank you for us... haha. and "excuse me"-- not so much since he's not very pushy.
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Yup. He only has two words and one of them is "danke."
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I'm trying to start now...When I give her something, I make her put her hands together and say, "joo sae yo" (give it to me, please (in Korean))...She has no clue.
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She is good with please and thank you - but needs to be prompted sometimes. I don't have her saying excuse me ... when does Charlie say that? Like if he burps or farts? Or for you to move?
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She's always said please and thank you in some contexts because we taught her to say "yes, please" and "no, thank you" whenever we ask her something (by doing it ourselves.) When asking for/receiving something, I'd say she's awesome at thank you, but still needs a little prompting with please (I think it was harder to pick up because putting the cause/effect of using it was more difficult since it was the cause instead of the effect.)
She uses "excuse me" when she wants to get our attention sometimes, but we're working on that as well. I'm also trying to get her to ask to be excused when she's done eating at dinner, but that one is slooooow coming.
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We're pretty much the same as Rock N Roll - first we worked on please like "Milk please" then it was "Give me the milk please" and now we're working on "Can I have some milk please?". She always forgets "Yes, please" and says "yeah" which drives me crazy.
She's pretty good at Thank you and No, Thank you.
We're really working on "Excuse me" which will lead into "Excuse me please". -
I always say it to her, with hopes that she'll catch on when she starts talking.
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I just wrote a post with the exact same subject line as this one... haha guess I'm predictable!
UPDATE: Charlie has been making progress on this front, but I still have to remind him to say please, thank you and excuse me...
How about you guys?
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Yep, and she's pretty good about it, but needs reminding sometimes that it's nicer to say "please" than " I want it!"
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Yup - I think it's soooo cute when she says "pweaase", "dank you"... and we haven't practiced excuse me, but she says "sowee"...
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She's pretty good about these now along with "I'm sorry". It's so cute when she says I'm sorry.
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@Andrea: We didn't really think to introduce "excuse me" yet, but daycare has the kids use it when they bump into each other or need someone to move. LO will mow other kids down since he exists in a near-permanent state of motion/frenzy, but at least he's pretty good at saying "excuse me" when he does it.
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yes but often needs prompting
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We'll prompt him to say "please" so he's pretty good about that. But we haven't prompted him to say "thank you" yet. We model it for him every day so that he sees us doing it. But haven't prompted him to do it yet.
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Yep. They have to say those things all the time. They even ask if they "may be excused from the table".
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Yes we drill these in... At first it was disheartening to have to ask Dd every time- "how do you ask!"(please may i have) or "what do you say?(thank you ) every. Single. Time. But it has paid off. We get compliments on her manners all the time from strangers.
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@T-Mom: So do we! I love hearing how polite our boys are!
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Halloween taught my son how to say Thank you. He had been occasionally doing it with prompting as a sign. But now, he will just say Dank after getting something. It's fantastic. We taught him please but he used that for everything. Now he will sit there and say "mohr" and sign please over and over again and I don't know what he needs.
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Definitely! Even before she could talk she signed please and thank you!
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I will definitely teach her these things!
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