BAD MANNERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1938, Page 16

BAD MANNERS

SOME TRAINING NECESSARY

Wu hfivc till KLifi'ercd at the 11finds of the ({iiesls who Icjivc Ibuir citsiirottos] burning on our mantelpieces, who de-! libern to I y drop their cifjiiroUu ash on Ilic cui'pet, put their damp glasses on Lhc polished surface; of our tables, sit on tlit: unns of our chairs, or placu their dirty fuel on tin: clean cover of the couch, states a writer in an exchange. We smile politely and say that it doesn't matter a bit, but there is anger in our he-arts. We blame our guests for their bad manners and luck of responsibility towards other people's property, but we should really direct our anger towards -their parents, who did not teach them any better, states an English writer.'

Children can bo trained to fuel a duty towards their neighbours, and a feeling of public duty can be instilled when they arc still in the nursery. Are you doing your best to make your children good citizens of the future?

As soon as they are old enough to understand children should be trained in tidiness and taught to think of others., When they have finished playing they must tidy up their own toys instead of leaving them for mother or mursc to put away.

After a day's play in the garden it, too, must be left tidy. If a child learns this lesson early in life he will naturally grow up into the kind of person who tidies up his rubbish after a picnic, and puts his tram and bus tickets in the place provided for them.

Collecting sandwich papers and other litter may be made into a game in which the smallest child can join, and great fun can be had over the burial of the rubbish.

When your son takes a book from a library he must be taught to treat it as carefully as one of his own.