072: Manners and Etiquette from a Kid's Point of View – Your Child Explained

"Wait a minute" – I hear you thinking – "aren't Your Child
Explained episodes a Thursday thing?"

You are absolutely right, ordinarily the Your Child Explained
airs on the Thursday after a guest episode. But this is an unusual
week because I'm interviewing the guest tomorrow, Wednesday, May 4,
so that you can get your questions to her and she can answer them
for Thursday's show…

Which you'll want to do, because returning champion Robin
Abrahams, whose weekly "Miss Conduct" column in the Boston Globe
Magazine answers etiquette questions with her own brand of
caring-yet- Seinfeld-ish, humor, is an expert in the rules that
allow us to all get along together.

Go to weturnedoutokay.com/contact to ask your toughest
questions about confusing social situations. Miss Conduct fields
thorny questions all the time and is a wonderful resource for you
if:

• while investigating homeschooling your young child, your
  mother-in-law informs you: "no grandchild of mine will ever
  homeschool"


• a friend chooses your daughter's first birthday party as the
  perfect venue to persuade everyone attending that her
  candidate in the upcoming national election is the best
  candidate


• you think a coworker might be pregnant, and you want to
  congratulate her, but you're not sure if she is or not; should you
  speak up?

In today's Your Child Explained episode – a precursor to my
conversation with Miss Conduct – we consider manners and etiquette
from the perspective of our young kids.

I share an embarrassing situation in which, at age four, one of
my boys "congratulated" an overweight pizza restaurant employee,
enthusiastically telling her "wow – you're really fat!"

Kids just don't have a filter, for better or for worse.

Everyone who hears my four-year-old gasps in astonishment. The
employee to whom my son directs his remark flushes; tears come to
her eyes.

What do I do at this moment?

Click here
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