Quote of the Day- Manners

"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any." Fred Astaire

This is quite observant. Even if it was given many years ago, I think it still applies today. For my daughter, I (and my Beloved) am going to be purposeful in showing her by being an example she can look to because today in society she will not get too many examples from the world. And I am sure, there will be many times that I fail in this, but I want the failure to be the exception, and not the rule.

My beloved and I will be going through some material soon that deals with training our child to respect the position of authority people may have, starting with us, then other adults, her teachers, the President, etc...It makes me sad how folks disrespect the office of the Presidency. They seem to equate emoting about how they hate Bush with having civilized discussion in disagreement about his policy issues. Just because you can protest and shout profenities doesn't mean you ought to.

Anything to add?
Derrick