Breaking Dads Ep 64: Manners
|This episode we are so very pleased to present to you, the kindly listener, our perspective, however uncouth, on the socially significant role of manners in parenting. Thank you for listening, and for your words of support, dearest friends scattered like the politest of pollen across the wide expanses of that peaceful universe of the internet.
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(duration: 31 min)
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Very funny. I think there is a whole cast in just greetings and farewells. The drop off kiss. The kiss or hug goodnight. When their friends are around. So you make them kiss /hug grandma or grandpa just because it’s the right thing even though it is just something they don’t want to do. Do we just say hug and kiss whenever you feel like it and and don’t when the urge isn’t on you. My girls are 15 and 13 now. I still need to kiss them goodnight in bed and turn out light each night. It’s a habit and ritual that has never stopped from day one of their lives. And on theming getting their manners from our example. Well my girls are sweet speaking, well behaved, good mannered girls. But I am a loud mouth swearing angry guy. There is at least one “dickhead” yelled to another driver on any trip across the burbs. My girls don’t blink an eyelid. They don’t swear (have you done a cast on swearing/cursing?). Even their mum is a big curser. So how have they ended up like they are. Are worry that when they are old enough and financial well pack up move out and tell us to go ***********f **** you pair of bad mannered cursing doofs!
Hi Dads. I have been listening to you guys on and off for a few years now. Love it. I’m a primary carer/home dad/ house husband/ secondary income earner (for tax purposes) and have been for 15 years now. As I listen to each episode I plan to write back to you each time. That would be good manners, right. I live in Sydney (Australia). It’s amazing how I as an Aussie can relate to so much that you say (particularly your dissing of non Canadian North Americans. ). But really our cultural, child rearing, schooling, politics, local govt, humour and more are so relative to an Aussie. So my kids are now in high school, 2 girls aged 15 and 13. So yep I have plenty of free time. Now that I have had a mini break of a year of both them in high school I decided time for a job. Then I listened to your cast Back to Work cast. I realised what a good wicket I was on. But so guilt ridden. Nit easy having it easy and not easy at the same time. Looking at a temporary job just to tip my toe in.
Ha! Thanks Matt – it is funny how similar Canadians and Aussies are (my favourite co-workers over the years have been Aussies, there’s a great shared sensibility).
As for swearing, it’s interesting as they get older. Our first episode ever was on swearing but now my son isn’t so offended if we say something he perceives as a curse. I think we don’t make much of a big deal of it so they don’t either. I have a feeling we’ll get the same response when they grow up and leave home!
I’m glad the show has resonated with you, nothing pleases us more!