Manners maketh man

[alcazar]

Currently in Italy.
Italians seem very warm and kind, often going the distance to help my wife, a wheelchair user. At least, adults are…
Yet their social skills, especially those of their children, seem lacking.
Out last night, on crowded streets, lost count of the number of kids who refused to take even a slight avoiding line for an oncoming wheelchair, even with both parents watching, and ignoring.
Just indulgent smiles at the ignorant kid.
We had no option but to keep stopping dead.
My poor wife had soon had enough, and we went back to our hotel.

[Iron-awe]

Couple of lines from my long departed Dad to us as kids growing up
Curtesy costs nothing
Good manners are never out of place

As you say alcy sadly lacking in some areas of society today, not all because some young people are very polite but quite a few others aren’t, maybe it was always this way, we tend to reflect on our past as being a little rosier than the present, that’s an age thing I believe.

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[alcazar]

I can remember getting my @rse warmed for even talking back to an adult.
1950’s.

[Northumbiron]

Italian “raggazzi” have always been indulged.

No different back in the 60s & 70s to what it is today.

[Gurnelista]

Same in Spain. Kids rule. And adults by n large are warm and kind, like Alcy’s Italians.
Something clearly wrong with the ‘arse-warming’ approach to parenting, kids should be seen and not heard, etc??

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