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Janet

In article >,
says...
>
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:23:46 +0100, Janet > wrote:
>
> >In article >,
> says...
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >I've got plenty of them, thanks. I loaned another friend a hardback
> >> >> >book and she let her kid scribble all through it with a pen and crayons.
> >> >> > I met a different friend for lunch one day - I was on my lunch break.
> >> >> > She let her kid dip his fries in ketchup and throw them at me. Rather
> >> >> >than take the fries away from him all she did was say "Gary, quit" over
> >> >> >and over. Of course he didn't. I had to go back to work wearing a
> >> >> >ketchup-stained blouse. I've been seated in a booth in a restaurant and
> >> >> >had kids kicking the back of the seat on the side where I was sitting.
> >> >> >Another instance, a kid throwing food over onto our table. As usual,
> >> >> >the parents seem to think there is nothing wrong with this behavior.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Jill
> >> >>
> >> >> And there is little or nothing wrong with the kids' behavior.
> >> >
> >> > I can't believe you wrote that, or believe it.
> >> >
> >> > Janet UK
> >>
> >> I wrote it and you should believe it. Stop thinking in generalities
> >> and tsk tsk finger wagging and face facts.
> >>
> >> Do you REALLY think that little kids sit around like statues?
> >
> > Of course not. But a child who had enough co-ordination to repeatedly
> >dip a fry in sauce, throw it across the table and repeatedly hit the
> >target;or, kick the back of other peoples chairs, clearly is NOT a baby.
> >He's big and old enough to have a clue about acceptable behaviour to
> >adults.
>
> Ever see kids play together? Ever see kids play WITH Adults? Kids to
> not have perfect judgment and they sure as hell do not have perfect
> behavior. Talk to a teacher sometime and find out what kids do

I was a teacher, (deprived areas of London and Glasgow, very useful
training for being a mother and grandmother.

From the day they could be propped up in a high chair and wave a spoon,
my children (and grandchildren) were socialised around the family table
at every mealtime. They'd got the hang of it by the time they graduated
out of bibs and non-spill beakers to big chairs, cutlery and napkins.

Janet UK