Where have all of the good manners gone 17 Articles

by Darrell Victor

If you are walking down the street and there is a stranger walking towards you, would greetings necessarily be exchanged? Sadly, the answer to that is not affirmative. More than a decade ago, that would have been more like...read more

by Holle Abee

Sometimes I think good manners have gone the way of the dinosaurs. If not completely extinct, proper etiquette is surely on the endangered list. It's certainly a dying art form, with only a few remnants remaining in the De...read more

by E. W. Johnson

As I reached the door to the restaurant I noticed two women about to exit so I opened the door and stepped back to allow them to leave. They both walked through the open door and neither of them acknowledged me in anyway. ...read more

by Lauren Rogers

The typical family isn't so typical anymore. Everyone is running in different directions to meetings, sports activities, and just trying to catch up on todays work. Both parents work in many families. A dinner together ...read more

by Vanessa Gambone

Walking through the crowded garden center the other day with a cart full of flowers and my three young children in tow, I was reminded that all the small "reminders" I provide to my children do eventually take hold. Wi...read more

by Ann Scott

During the past few years I have noticed the lack of manners in many of our young people. Even some of the older crowd have forsaken the good manners that were once taught in every home. Anyone had rather meet a smiling...read more

by Michelle Prichard

There was a time when you went to work to earn money for what you want to buy or because your family needed extra income. Many of the kids entering the work force today think they are entitled to everything and have no co...read more

by Katrina Goode

It is on a very rare occasion that you will find children, adolescents or adults that display good manners and etiquette. It makes me wonder what happened to the values that people used to hold so dear. When I was growing ...read more

by Annetherese McCorkell

When I head toward the checkout stand at the local supermarket here in New York with my husband often someone starts walking quickly and cuts me off. When I politely asked a woman if she was on line at the local bank...read more

by Bridgette Powell

Where have all of the good manners gone? That is a good question. The answer is just simply away. As we become more technically advanced we become less like human beings and more like androids or robots with no emotions...read more

by Theresa Dudley

What seven people will help raise my child? Many times I look at my children and I wonder and worry at the same time "Who will help my children if something were to happen to me?" I also know that it takes seven people ...read more

by Julie Mcewen

There are little or no manners left in the world. I live in a little neighbourhood just outside manchester uk. i have lived there my whole life as did my parents and grandparents, as a result everybody knows who i am i k...read more

by Leigh Sanders

This article seems to be based on the wrong question, in my opinion. Rather than sitting around asking ourselves why all of the polite mannerisms of this country suddenly ran for cover, we should be asking ourselves why w...read more

by Auzzie

After recently reading an article in the Week (a UK publication) I wondering a bad manners an infectious disease of sorts which weakens morals, and can one man make a difference!? Please inform me of your experiences and t...read more

by Shelley Ford

Do you know I'm the mother of three boys aged 9,4,7 and i know for sure they will always be polite. Where have all the Good manners gone they've been sucked away with working career minded parents who like to provide mat...read more