Manners......I am hard pressed to see anyone use good manners in schools anymore. Heck, for that matter, almost anywhere.
Students pop in the clinic and shout "bandaids". I say, yes, would you like some bandaids for your classroom ? They say yeah...... No please......?? I give them a handful and they walk out of the clinic without any THANK YOU. I have to say..."what do we say" and they look at me like I have three eyes ????
WHISKEY, TANGO, FOXTROT !!
It's not just the students. I have teachers that won't say please or thank you either.
I want to very sarcastically say: "YOUR WELCOME" when they leave here without so much as a thank you.
I mean, who is teaching kids manners these days ? Certainly not parents, and apparently teachers either !
Specializes in Peds, MS, DIDD, Corrections, HH, LTC, School Nurse.
I'd like to have a trap door in front of my desk...for the PARENT who either starts talking to me while I'm on the phone and just stands in front of my desk waiting for me to get off the phone; push one button - and they're gone!
I have teachers that do the same....I need that trap door also!!
It's not just in schools, of course. There have been many articles written about the rise of rudeness, lack of manners, and other related stuff in the last what, 20 years?
Specializes in General Nursing,Aged Care,Community Nurs.
Good manners,usually taught by parents,at home has to be seen to be followed through by the child, to an adult.I was walking along the street one day with my 2yr old(very loud) ....we called him Foghorn!!.We walked past a bus stop,where an old man wassitting waiting for the bus.Danny said(very loudly) HELLO MAN, ....no answer we kept walking,he pulled me back to stand in front of this person .gain he asked,HELLO MAN...still no answer,then,at the top of his voice he stated ' HE IS IGNORANT, ISNT HE MUM' people standing around laughed,the man took off and.everybody said" from
out of the mouths of babes....."It is not too hard to answer a small child,and they learn from this!!
I've sarcastically said 'You're welcome' too, under my breath, in response to demands (read: barked commands :^) from residents & family members. Luckily that's the exception rather than the rule, though.
Good manners,usually taught by parents,at home has to be seen to be followed through by the child, to an adult.I was walking along the street one day with my 2yr old(very loud) ....we called him Foghorn!!.We walked past a bus stop,where an old man wassitting waiting for the bus.Danny said(very loudly) HELLO MAN, ....no answer we kept walking,he pulled me back to stand in front of this person .gain he asked,HELLO MAN...still no answer,then,at the top of his voice he stated ' HE IS IGNORANT, ISNT HE MUM' people standing around laughed,the man took off and.everybody said" from
out of the mouths of babes....."It is not too hard to answer a small child,and they learn from this!!
Yea, um, no.
Maybe the guy had a bad day. I would have told my kid to stuff it.
It's so funny to read this because in the UK "No Problem" or a nod of the head is the standard (and perfectly polite) response to "Thank you" In Australia it's "No Worries". Have they picked it up from British TV or something? A "you're welcome" response would probably make most Brits try to analyse if you're being sarky. I guess language changes over time and as long as people are trying to be polite people shouldn't take offence.
Its pretty hard to fault students for bad manners when a para in her 50s comes into my office on a daily basis, "NURSE WE NEED THIS". She doesn't mean bad but I don't think she realizes what kind of example she is setting.
It's not just in schools, of course. There have been many articles written about the rise of rudeness, lack of manners, and other related stuff in the last what, 20 years?
Every generation says it about the following generations motivation and work ethic.
[h=1]"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise"[/h]
Sound familiar? It's Socrates. This is not a new complaint and never will be.
Feral.Cat.Herder, RN
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I have teachers that do the same....I need that trap door also!!