rude bastard. My mother would have whacked me over the head if i hadn't said my please and thank yous. Actually, no, she wouldn't have resorted to violence... my mother doesn't need to do that... love her but she can be a scary lady.
You're right, though, it's parents. I see it with the parents of my girls. And it's amazing the difference. In the ones who are hard workers, but don't have a lot of money, the kids have the best manners. The ones who have too much money, the kids have a hard time connecting with other kids, and tend to buy them off (expensive birthday presents and the like) in order to have friends. The parents who are dole bludgers, had the kids simply for the baby bonus, they tend to have sweet kids who are clingy and desperate to be loved.
But yeah, the kids whose parents really have to work to keep afloat, so they have two jobs and they cram all their kids into a caravan, are as rough as guts, but their kids tend to have the better manners. The parents make sure that their children know what respect is. That is a generalisation, of course. But that is what i've found. Of course i've had the couple of richer families with children that are just delightful, but you'll find it's a different kind of family. They have money but they didn't either always have it, or they've got the money because they're fairly smart and have that genius strangeness about them.... if you get me. :S I don't even know if i get myself...
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on 2006-02-24 01:32 am (UTC)You're right, though, it's parents. I see it with the parents of my girls. And it's amazing the difference. In the ones who are hard workers, but don't have a lot of money, the kids have the best manners. The ones who have too much money, the kids have a hard time connecting with other kids, and tend to buy them off (expensive birthday presents and the like) in order to have friends. The parents who are dole bludgers, had the kids simply for the baby bonus, they tend to have sweet kids who are clingy and desperate to be loved.
But yeah, the kids whose parents really have to work to keep afloat, so they have two jobs and they cram all their kids into a caravan, are as rough as guts, but their kids tend to have the better manners. The parents make sure that their children know what respect is. That is a generalisation, of course. But that is what i've found. Of course i've had the couple of richer families with children that are just delightful, but you'll find it's a different kind of family. They have money but they didn't either always have it, or they've got the money because they're fairly smart and have that genius strangeness about them.... if you get me. :S I don't even know if i get myself...