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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 2357067" data-attributes="member: 7883">I think that maturity can contribute to courtesy.  Treating others as you want to be treated, and treating them like they have value typically requires a level of maturity that many people don't seem to develop.  In the "me me me" society that we live in nowadays, it seems that a lot of people have forgotten about the simple things.I think a lot of it has to do with teaching though....what you're taught in school, and by family.My personal opinion is that with the rise of the two-income family, children just aren't getting raised the same way as they used to be.  Parents just don't seem to have much authority over their kids.  I've heard that in my province (Ontario), the schools can't even fail children who are doing poorly anymore, for fear of damaging their self-esteem.  My girlfriend and I were sitting in a restaurant enjoying dinner, and the table where we'd been seated was next to a family with 3 or 4 kids.  Apparently there'd been some sort of party, and they were at the tail end of their dinner.  The kids were running around.  Not just running around, but getting rowdy as well.  They kept going behind my seat, and on several instances while I was eating, one ran on one side of our table, the other was right behind me, and would yell to his brother....from about 4 cm behind my ear.  They were dragging balloons around, and actually hit the waitress in the face with one, intentionally, while she was carrying a bunch of trays.All this time, what happened?  A few times the parents asked the kids to sit down, but they didn't force them to...so the kids kept doing this.  If I had acted like that as a kid, my parents would have ended the dinner right there, we'd have been loaded into the car, taken home, sent to our rooms, and grounded for a week.  Overly strict?  Maybe.....but none of the kids in our family were anything like that.I just don't get why parents would let their kids do this kind of thing.Banshee</blockquote>

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