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

"Wait a minute" – I hear you thinking – "aren't Your ChildExplained episodes a Thursday thing?"You are absolutely right, ordinarily the Your Child Explainedairs on the Thursday after a guest episode. But this is an unusualweek because I'm interviewing the guest tomorrow, Wednesday, May 4,so that you can get your questions to her and she can answer themfor Thursday's show…Which you'll want to do, because returning champion RobinAbrahams, whose weekly "Miss Conduct" column in the Boston GlobeMagazine answers etiquette questions with her own brand ofcaring-yet- Seinfeld-ish, humor, is an expert in the rules thatallow us to all get along together.Go to weturnedoutokay.com/contact to ask your toughestquestions about confusing social situations. Miss Conduct fieldsthorny questions all the time and is a wonderful resource for youif:while investigating homeschooling your young child, yourmother-in-law informs you: "no grandchild of mine will everhomeschool"a friend chooses your daughter's first birthday party as theperfect venue to persuade everyone attending that hercandidate in the upcoming national election is the bestcandidateyou think a coworker might be pregnant, and you want tocongratulate her, but you're not sure if she is or not; should youspeak up?In today's Your Child Explained episode – a precursor to myconversation with Miss Conduct – we consider manners and etiquettefrom the perspective of our young kids.I share an embarrassing situation in which, at age four, one ofmy 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. Theemployee to whom my son directs his remark flushes; tears come toher eyes.What do I do at this moment?Click hereor go to weturnedoutokay.com/072 to find out – and if you haven'tgotten it yet, click here or go to Amazon.com to download my e-book,Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics: Key Tools to Handle EveryTemper Tantrum, Keep Your Cool, and Enjoy Life With Your YoungChild. It's finally launched and ready for you to startlearning the tools that will make every day as a parent calmer andhappier! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kaylockkolp.substack.com/subscribe