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What's Happened to Manners

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durbanlady Sat 17-Dec-11 12:09:29

Yesterday while travelling on the bus home, four 12 year old boys boarded the bus and immediately took up the remaining seats while quite a few elderly ladies with shopping were left to stand up around them. In my youth we would not have even dared to take up a seat with an adult left standing and would have probably been told off by the conductor. Whilst I was quite shocked by their behaviour I was also saddened to think that to them this was perfectly "normal" and they sat there completely oblivious that there were elderly ladies without seats. not only that they were making a lot of noise and using bad language. Is it just me or are manners in young people completely dead?.

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Nanban Wed 11-Jan-12 20:14:22

I've just arrived back and picked up on the French children link - we lived in a little French village for a bit - a bit too long actually - and hoards of French children/teenagers came to the village hall to get so drunk they slept on benches, in gardens and garages, wherever they could and their parents seemed not to notice or care. The French are very good at that and yet brushing up the public image nicely.

Smacking - oh yes indeed I smacked mine own but so wish we had the reward system that seems to work so well now - the main thing which is so lacking in all ages is to say no and mean just that. Some things you can do and others no.

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