Do you ever get embarrassed by your child's behavior ?

You're a mother, therefore you are inevitably being judged by SOMEONE no matter what you do. You've just got try to to let that go.

As far as teaching manners, the best place to practice is at home. If please and thank you (and stay seated at the table, wait your turn, share your toys, etc) are part of the home routine, it'll become engrained enough that using please and thank you with others will feel just as normal as it does at home. So keep working on it, give your daughter gentle reminders when the occasion comes up, but if she won't say it then just say please or thank you on her behalf and move on. She's really little still and will learn eventually.

She's only two and a half. Most children even beyond that age don't say it or don't always. And honestly I wouldn't expect a child so young to even say it. As a mom I know first hand their vocabulary is still pretty limited in comparison to a school age child. I would imagine other parents would also be understanding of that fact.

Mine are about to turn 5 and 6 respectively. They still need reminding sometimes. And I imagine they will continue to need some reminding about manners until adulthood.

Look, she's 2.5,

All children have different personalities and you shouldn't shout at her to use her manners as this will make her defintely not use them and will probably lead to more behavior issues.

Just nicely remind her to say please and thank you and she'll pick it up in no time! You shouldn't be so hard on her, she's on 2.5!

No one would ever think your a bad mum for her not saying please and thank you! I imagine only snobs would think that,.

And don't be so hard on yourself either! You shouldn't be embarrassed, she'll pick it up. Just nicely remind her to say please and thank you.

My daughter uses her manners now (almost 3) but I totally forgot to teach her manors for the longest time. One day someone was giving her something and said "what do you say?" And my daughter looked at them dumb founded. After that I started teaching her them and she picked it right up and now she is more polite than me.

I never had to do this but it was the only thing that worked for my brother who wouldn't use his manors. My gma told him to say please or he couldn't have his juice, and he went like half a day refusing to say it and finally did, after a few times saying please he got started saying it without being reminded.

Don't be embarrassed though my daughter has great manors, but sometimes she will scream her head off because she wants to eat on the floor, wear her pants backwards, or drive the car.

It's your job to teach her manners. She's young, she will learn. Teach by example. It's ok to be disappointed, but you are the one who has to teach her those things, it's not her fault. Keep working at it. And remember, she's little, she will catch on.

As a child, my mother taught me that I should say please and thank you because I should want to, not because it was the proper thing to do. With that, I decided I wanted to be polite, and I said please, thank you, and had manners. When my preschool teachers would force me to say "I'm sorry" for something I truly wasn't sorry for, that just made me angry, and I refused to say it! My mother says don't say sorry unless you are sincere, and it makes sorry mean more than just a polite word. Your daughter should mean what she says, and how she acts :)

Manners are pretentious and a sign of low class. The aristocracy used to belch at the table, pee in pots and eat with their fingers. It was only the middle classes that insisted on saying please and thank you, eating with a fork, and drinking tea from the cup rather than the saucer. I'm more likely to laugh at my kid's bad behavior than get embarrassed, and I don't care what other people think of me

just keep up the good work it will come MY GRANDSON NOW 8 OPENS DOORS FOR STANGERS proud of him