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Children learn what they see. If mom and/or dad are loud, obnoxious and rude.... the kids usually follow along in their footsteps.
Taking my nephew to school last year really showed the truth of this.... I walk with a cane most of the time, so on stairs, I'm especially slow. I tend to wait until everyone else is out of the way so I can go down without freaking out because someone is breathing down my neck. I found that the same kids that would near knock me down the stairs had parents that did the same. There is something seriously wrong with an adult that would walk up the stairs until they are almost on top of you coming down....and then suck their teeth because "you're in their" way. Coming down, they'd nearly run right up my back... even tho' I'm pretty hard to miss. Rude is rude, and it tends to be a passed down trait.
I tend to not like people at the best of times... but the rare few seem to be parents of kids I can almost stand to have around as well.
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