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Close Can You Raise a Polite Kid in this Rude World? Develop Rituals. 26. Attitudes of respect, modesty and fair play can grow only out of slowly acquired skills that parents teach their children over many years through shared experience and memory. Ifa child reaches adulthood with recollections only of television, Little League and birthday parties, then that child has little to draw on when a true test of es up— say, ina prickly ([‘ prikli] adj, 棘手的,难处理的) business situation. “ Unless that child feels grounded in who he is and where es from, everything else is an act, ” says etiquette expert Betty Jo Trakimas. 27. The Dickmeyers of Carmel. Ind., reserve every Friday night as“ family night ” with their three children. Often the family plays board games or hide-and-seek. “ My children love it,” says Theresa, their mother. 28. Can playing hide-and-seek really teach a child about manners? Yes, say Trakimas and others, because it tells children that their parents care enough to spend time with him, he is loved and can learn to love others. “ Manners aren ’t about using the right fork, agrees etiquette instructor Patricia Gilbert-Hinz. “ Manners are about being kind — pliments , team-playing, making sacrifices. Children learn that through their parents. ” 29. While children don ’t automatically warm to the idea of learning to be polite, there ’s no reason for them to see manners asa