I’m constantly telling my 7+ year old son that if he does not behave well, people will say his parents have not taught him anything. I was repeating my litany when he was off for a sleep over when he blew his top. “Why do you keep on saying that? I already know it. It is deeply embedded in my brain, so much so that I wrote it in an essay”

This is how the said essay “Why we need good manners” went. “If you do not have good manners, people will say your parents have not taught you anything. You will feel bad if people say bad things about your parents. You will grow up with bad manners and your children will not learn good manner. Then people will say your children don’t have good manners since you haven’t taught them anything so you will feel bad again”