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Deeluvsvinny
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When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
We went to a trick or treating parade in our neighborhood today..it was ridiculous. Kids were pushing, shoving, no one said "trick or treat" or "thank you" We were in a local store, and One little girl was actually pushing DD in her stroller backwards..like she put her hands on DD and pushed so the stroller went backwards and I said "excuse me" and she just kept pushing, her mom then took her hand and slammed the door in my face! Umm thanks for holding it for me. Then some little girl actually said to my mom "why won't you just move out of my way?"
It made me more determined to make sure DD is polite. I know it's a holiday and they're young and all they care about is Candy..but it was just terrible.
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MrsRivera
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
I am with you.
We had some kids come to the door before...older kids, I'd say middle school. They rang my doorbell INCESSANTLY and knocked, and when I got to the door and answered it...they said nothing! So I stood there and said, "Can I help you?" and the one kid was like, "Yeah, uh...trick or treat".
To which I replied, "Aren't you guys a little old to still be trick-or-treating"? 
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| Posted 10/31/10 9:02 PM |
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dawnygirl25
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
I know. I noticed some kids like that today. Not my DD.. I reminded her before we knocked on every door today to say trick or treat and thank you.
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| Posted 10/31/10 9:06 PM |
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katiebug
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
I had the exact opposite experience here. All the kids were saying thank you and were so respectful, as were the parents. It was really nice to see.
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| Posted 10/31/10 9:08 PM |
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8ternity
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
Posted by MrsRivera
I am with you.
We had some kids come to the door before...older kids, I'd say middle school. They rang my doorbell INCESSANTLY and knocked, and when I got to the door and answered it...they said nothing! So I stood there and said, "Can I help you?" and the one kid was like, "Yeah, uh...trick or treat".
To which I replied, "Aren't you guys a little old to still be trick-or-treating"?
 omg my grandma said the same thing to the older kids and she actually told them to get a job lol...shes so ballsy I was so embarrassed!
Yea we were giving 2 candies at a time and the kid was still standing there like they wanted more, we said sorry we don't have enough.
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| Posted 10/31/10 9:41 PM |
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Xelindrya
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
Posted by katiebug
I had the exact opposite experience here. All the kids were saying thank you and were so respectful, as were the parents. It was really nice to see.
thankfully the same here
Even the little ones tried to say trick or treat. Parents of small ones asked for only one. As we went treat or treating AJ said hi and bye to each door, waved and gave kisses to everyone she saw. The whole street was really friendly.
Later on at night the bigger kids came out and I was just saying out the last one said thank you at LEAST 8 times!!
A whole lot of thank yous, and trick or treat or 'please' being said. Real nice. No eggings or TPing. A cop came by at one point but no one really was out of hand. He just patrolled the streets and turned on his lights to sorta keep the kids from walking out into the street without paying attention.
First Halloween in my own house has been a GREAT experience all the way around! 
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| Posted 10/31/10 9:45 PM |
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gforce
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
Posted by katiebug
I had the exact opposite experience here. All the kids were saying thank you and were so respectful, as were the parents. It was really nice to see.
same here, all the kids were really nice on my block. The parents were as well and will say thank you if a kid forgot to.
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| Posted 10/31/10 9:57 PM |
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mommyIam
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
Posted by katiebug
I had the exact opposite experience here. All the kids were saying thank you and were so respectful, as were the parents. It was really nice to see.
Love Brooklyn for this reason! It crosses race and economic boundaries most of the time, bad apples here and there, but for the most part the kids who go trick or treating are greatful and polite, maybe cause the bad apples are doing other things ...
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| Posted 10/31/10 9:58 PM |
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jgl
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
I totally agree with you! I cannot believe how few even say "thank you"
At 11 am our doorbell rang. I had just been playing with DS in his room. I got up with him and started walking to the door. Literally a few seconds passed and i hear banging on the door, followed with what sounded like kids pushing into my storm door (like bumbrushing it) i opened the door and one boy had already started opening my storm door  . Really? There was about 10 kids around 16 yrs old. When i opened the door i said "wooah take it easy" in reaction to their rudeness. How do you behave like that?
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| Posted 10/31/10 9:58 PM |
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Lillykat
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
We luckily didn't have that experience. DD#1 helped hand out candy when people rang our door. With the exception of a few kids who rang the bell like 15 times - they were all exceptionally polite. Very big THANK YOUs! Several of the older children told DD#1 that she made an adorable princess which made her day. Most children only took one candy and I had to say it is okay if you want to take more.
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| Posted 11/1/10 10:13 AM |
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MaMaTeenie
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
There have always been and always will be parents who don't teach that kids manners....probably because they don't know good manners themselves.
After every door I yelled to DS say thank you if I didn't hear him say it, sometimes the people were like oh, he said thank you 
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| Posted 11/1/10 10:31 AM |
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TreAnt427
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
Actually most of the kids that came to my house did say Trick or Treat and Thank you.
But the banging on the door and holding down the door bell until I got there was really irking me! They literally didn't give me 10 secs to get to the door!
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| Posted 11/1/10 10:51 AM |
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BellaRock
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
We had a child complain and whine about the candy we gave out. We gave him 2 Reeses and he started freaking out because he hates peanut butter. Then he asked us if he had something with coconut in it.
When we took DS and my nieces out there were a few times when my kids were pushed out the way or kids put their bags out in front on my DS face to get the candy before DS.
It was crazy.
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| Posted 11/1/10 11:31 AM |
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tara73
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
Most of the kids we encountered yesterday were polite enough. Some of the bigger kids around 7 or 8ish unintentionally ran into DD, but they all stopped and apologized for bumping her. None did it enough to knock her down or anything. Just eager kids, but not overly rude or obnoxious. I did notice that the ones who had a parent going to the door with them ALWAYS minded their manners and remember their pleases and thank yous.
What irked me was the group of teenagers that were cussing and being rowdy, and they weren't even in costume. We got stuck with them for a few houses and they were RUDE. Asking people for drinks, not saying thank you, asking for more or different candy (cuz they're bigger you know!)
I was embarrassed for them.
DD was very good for remember to say Thank you and only took one piece each time. She actually had to be coaxed by some of the people handing out candy to take MORE.
But nothing peeved me off more than the lazies who DROVE THEIR KIDS HOUSE TO HOUSE!!!! Greedy and lazy, IMO, unless you have a medical condition which prohibits you walking a couple of blocks. This was pure greed. Parents in cars telling kid to run to this house and that house so they can visit more houses.
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maybesoon
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
I noticed a lot of that nonsense yesterday, particularly girls, and the mom's just stand there in la la land  who knew such little kids could be so nasty!
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neener1211
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
I had mostly polite TOR'ers, except for a small little kid who got candy in his bag from me, then saw a piece that he wanted, so he pushed his way past the other kids again, pushed against my screen door, and came into my house!!!
I told him to step outside, and that he already got candy. I can't believe the guts of some of these kids.
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bluekat16
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Re: When did parents stop teaching their kids manners??
I hate rudeness and unruliness. I just don't understand it...especially from a child. As a child my parents would not have tolerated that behavior.
I had a situation yesterday where I found out we have a couple of punks that live in my neighborhood....one came up, rang the door bell..I couldn't get to the door at that moment but my nephew went...he basically rang the door bell and ran  . That same kid with two other kids then were up and down the block in an ATV causing a rucus and they had toilet paper and shaving cream. Later they were walking by my house as we were comign back from TOTing and they looked like they were going to toilet paper my house and shaving cream it. Now I'm a city girl...I can smell trouble from a mile away...I clocked them and they noticed it and stopped, but then they went around the corner (we're a corner house) and were about to do it and I walked up and told them not to do it..to move away. Now don't get me wrong I kinda get the whole toiler p[aper/shaving cream thing...but they were just being a-holes (yes I just called kids a-holes). Mind you they weren't even teenagers they were maybe in middle school.
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