{"id":2014,"date":"2010-06-13T22:17:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T05:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kalynjohnson.com\/blog\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2010-06-13T22:17:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T05:17:39","slug":"to-the-manner-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kalynjohnson.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/to-the-manner-born\/","title":{"rendered":"To The Manner Born"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manners. Manners are the standard of conduct that show others you are proper, polite and refined. \u00a0I’ve been thinking a lot about manners lately. \u00a0On some level, it seems to me that manners have gotten pushed to the wayside. I must admit, I’m big on manners. \u00a0As a child, my mother reinforced manners in all sorts of ways. \u00a0For example, I knew from an early age on that “please” was the magic word, but I learned from the folk singer, Ella Jenkins<\/a>, that “please is a pleasant expression, please is nice to say.” \u00a0(The fact that I still know every word to a song that I learned when I was 5 is testament to the strength of my mother’s tactics). \u00a0I cannot lie, I truly appreciate a courteous person – friend, salesperson, stranger – it almost makes me swoon when I receive a hand-written thank you note in the mail. \u00a0Call me old-fashioned, but I’m a sucker for a well-mannered individual. \u00a0The other day a new acquaitance told me that when she met her husband, the first thing she noticed about him was how well-mannered he was. \u00a0Believe you me, manners are things that people notice even if they never comment on them.<\/p>\n

Great manners can definitely make climbing the ladder to success a whole heck of a lot easier. \u00a0None of us are born knowing all of \u00a0this stuff, but some of it is just merely common sense. \u00a0However, even the most mannered of us out there can polish up on our manners every now and again. \u00a0There are tons of etiquette books out there now; along with Miss Manners<\/a>, even folks like Whoopi Goldberg have thrown their hat in to the etiquette ring, she’s got a great etiquette book for kids called\u00a0Whoopi’s Big Book of Manners<\/a>. \u00a0As long as the message gets across, it doesn’t really matter who’s conveying it as long as it gets conveyed. \u00a0These are my thoughts. \u00a0I’d love to know what you guys think.<\/p>\n

How big are you on manners? Do you put your napkin on your lap for meals? Do you say please and thank you religiously? Do you kindly ask people to do things, or do you tell them to do it? \u00a0Do you interrupt others when they’re talking or do you allow them to finish their point before launching into yours? \u00a0Do you apologize when you’ve mis-spoken?<\/p>\n

I’m just trying to gauge what others view the importance of manners in today’s society to be. \u00a0I’d love to hear your thoughts.<\/p>\n

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Manners. Manners are the standard of conduct that show others you are proper, polite and refined. \u00a0I’ve been thinking a lot about manners lately. \u00a0On some level, it seems to me that manners have gotten pushed to the wayside. I must admit, I’m big on manners. \u00a0As a child, my mother reinforced manners in all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalynjohnson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalynjohnson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalynjohnson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalynjohnson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalynjohnson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kalynjohnson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalynjohnson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalynjohnson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalynjohnson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}