What about kids and the expectation of manners?

A parent’s expectation of their child is very important.  Children look for guidelines, boundaries and rules from parents.  As parents, it is important that you do not let your children down by not providing these things.  Not only is it ok for you to have an expectation for your child, it is essential! 

Manners are part of those expectations.  However, your child cannot live up to those expectations, if they do not know what they are or if they only hear about the expectation when they miss the mark.

So we must be clear what the expectation is…..the teaching of manners must start in our homes…these lessons of self confidence are too important to leave to anyone else.

Kids will hit the mark a lot more often, when they clearly understand what the target is.