Please and Thank You Training
ByYea, this is posted via timestamp, just to spare you from posts made 2 minutes apart.
Anyhow, here’s something that has come to mind recently about raising kids.
Our kids seem to do a better job with their “Please” and “Thank you” when we are not around. At least, they do a better job, it seems, of using them spontaneously. I wonder, have we trained them to, while in our presence, wait for us to say, “Now what do you say?” Or “How do you ask?” (And if you aren’t a parent and think that you’ll never use these words, you’re kidding yourself. They’ll come out eventually. And by the time you realize you sound like your parent, the habits will be formed. It will be too late.)
If they are being polite spontaneously while we are not around, I wonder how we can train them better to respond properly in our presence? For it seems rather difficult not to continually remind them in order for them to form the right habits. Anyhow, no answers here. Just thinking…
If you have the trick, I am all ears.
1 Comments
May 12th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Oh, I say a lot of things I thought I never would say. LOL!
I have The Boy repeat the entire sentence/request as it should have been stated in the first place. In other words, rather than accepting a “please” after I ask how we ask for something, I have him repeat– “I would like a strawberry, please.” or something similar. It works really well for us, but he also has times when he needs more reminding. Also, I think in our case, it helps that he must also use please and thank you at daycare, so he is not only hearing it at home.