Monday, April 2, 2007

Bad manners/Good presents

The background to this story is that Jamie loves toy cars. That understates it really.

We've been working on manners a lot lately with Jamie, with mixed success, albeit, but he has shown an interest. So we were riding home in the car one evening and Jamie wanted to talk about manners. Bad manners, actually, which turn out to be far more interesting than good manners. After bringing up a seemingly endless number of situations in which good or bad manners might be exercised, we asked him about presents. We agreed it was polite to say "thank you" when receiving a present, but asked him what he might do if he received a present he didn't really like, a piece of clothing perhaps. He replied matter of factly: "I would tell them they should put a car in there. Then I would like it."

1 comment:

Suzanne said...

a purple audi please......