Miss Manners

We have been working really hard on making sure our toddler practices good manners. She fully understand please, thank you and excuse me, and often says them at appropriately without needing to be reminded. But now I feel like it will be important to show her the reason behind the good manners. Not just because polite society demands it. Not only because she's half yankee and living among southern belles. Not even so that folks will "ooh" and "ah" at her advanced articulation. (Though I admittedly get a big kick of out that one.) But most importantly because using manners shows that we value other people, and we (as Christians) are called to do so because Jesus values others, and we should emulate all His qualities.

Now if I could only get the please to not sound like whining on the verge of a tantrum by the 4th or 5th time she says it while asking for ice cream.