Yes, they are.
Manners, once a requirement for a civilized society, are rarely taught in the home anymore.
“Manners, once a requirement for a civilized society, are rarely taught in the home anymore”
There’s this thing going on in families where the parents feel that the children should be self-parenting themselves and that’s the problem. Parents aren’t parents anymore! They want to be buddies with their curtain climbers and it just doesn’t work out.