Making Room for Miss Manners Is a Parenting Basic

“Every infant is born adorable but selfish and the center of the universe,” she replied. It’s a parent’s job to teach that “there are other people, and other people have feelings.”
The conversations that every pediatrician has, over and over, about “limit setting” and “consistently praising good behavior” are conversations about manners. And when you are in the exam room with a child who seems to have none, you begin to wonder what is going on at home and at school, and questions of family dysfunction or neurodevelopmental problems begin to cross your mind.

Making Room for Miss Manners Is a Parenting Basic, by Perri Klass, M.D

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  1. What do you do when you have that child who says “please”, “thank you”, “excuse me” but insists on pushing the limits because they are naturally one of those “push the limits” kid?