Manners 101: Going back to Basics. Manners is not only for Home but for Business too.

I read an article this week that our generation of kids and teenagers lack respect for others because they lack manners. The sad truth is is that it isn’t just kids but adults as well.

Somehow, somewhere the line gets broken. Being polite and having manners don’t matter anymore. Children and adults don’t even say “please” or “thank you” anymore. We are a generation of “give me”, “take me”, “bring me,” or any other kind of “me” that will turn the next generation of adults and children into rude, inconsiderate beings.

People tend to think it is funny that I teach my kids please and thank you. They even think it is funny that my oldest son will open my car door for me when we get to the car. Did I teach him that? Did I teach my boys that when a lady comes through that they move out of the way and give her the right of passage? Yes I did. A lot of what they have learned they have learned at home.

It seems to me that in this day in age parents are way too busy to spend time with their children teaching them basic manner skills. Teaching a basic “please” and “thank you” should not be hard. In fact it should be easy. It only seems hard because we make things a lot harder than they should be now.

Parenting is a choice yes, but also teaching manners is too. Good manners are always in style so let’s begin again as a society in bring up our children in an wholesome world where they can learn and grow the right way from good old fashion values and not what the streets or their friends can teach them. Chances are what their friends or streets will teach won’t be good.

The next thing to worry about is how the next generation will treat others in business ventures? Or behave when they go in for a business interview? HR departments actually look for a quality of manners in people. But what is sad is that people who get the jobs they desire or apply for lose that character about them and they become rude. People in the workplace don’t know how to have manners anymore. And there is a difference between ‘professional manners’ and ‘common decency’. You use can both in the workplace but most feel as if using professional manners is more appropriate. But to be honest I believe that the values of using professional manners is no longer part of the job either. We have become lazy in vocabulary that so have professionals in manner of speech and manners of behavior.