Wife Camp?

[Mary Kay]

'Wife' School - Would You Send Your Daughter? - ParentDish

You guys have to check this out! I am all for good manners, my childern were taught Please and Thank you, you are welcome, excuse me and table manners. They heard say "yes sir and no ma'am: to your betters and elders and to open doors and pull out chairs for elders and ladies..
A lot of the Sir and ma'am stuff was due to us being Military, but the rest was old fashioned good manners.
I don't think my kids and grandkids, who spent a lot of their early years with us, ever needed a course..But I meet kids everyday who could use it! Not just girl or kids for that matter.
I do want to say if you (ladies) ever went to dinner with us, please hold on to your chair..my younger grandson will pull it out and shove you and your chair right under the table! I am trying..but he does not get the word 'guide" NOT slide.
You also need to get a wiggle on while he is holding the door for you..he has told me (when he was 4) Hurry up grandma! This the door is heavy!! Making the people around us laugh.
The older grandson (at 5) once asked why he HAD to carry my bags if I never carried him around?
He overheard my daughter joking with a friend about my refusal to carry my own bags when I had a child (mine or hers) with me. She told her friend, that I said " I carried you for 9 months, you can carry the bags for me!" My grandson overheard and misunderstood.

 

[nitewriter]

"The Stepford Wives" in the making. ...That was the first thing to go through my mind. I guess mainly because it is geared towards turning young girls into the perfect wives.

If it was a manners or etiquette camp, and geared to both sexes, I would view it differently.

 

[BARENETTED]

Ummm - hell no.

I taught her everything she needed to know, just like you did.
If little kids are rude, the parents need some kind of 'class'!

Love the chuckle from the Grandkids. As least they are trying to do the
right thing, which shows that someone is making an attempt at teaching them. They will get it down pat, just give them time.

When my 2 year old GD asks for something, we say 'What do you say?'
She answers 'Please and Thank You'. lol. She is thinking - This way 'I don't have to say Thank You after I am handed my request'. lol
Like - killing 2 birds with one stone.

 

[BARENETTED]

OT - While visiting that page, there was a piece on Childhood Beauty Pageants. Now there is a topic I could tear apart like a pitbull.

 

[Mary Kay]

Did you guys check out the vote? The results were almost even when I did!

When boys are allowed to join pagents..

My mom was a model in her youth and we had model programs in all the big Dept. stores for girls of all sizes/ages when I was a kid. I never wanted to do that. But beauty pagents..yuck!