http://www.uncommon-parenting.com/2009/09/is-it-raining-rudeness/ Learn to parent like no one else so your children can grow up to be like no one else. Uncommon Parenting founders Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller are prolific authors, keynote speakers, seminar leaders, and media personalities that provide guidance and understanding of behavior and parenting communication issues. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:34:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.uncommon-parenting.com/2009/09/is-it-raining-rudeness/comment-page-1/#comment-3724 Karla E Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:23:42 +0000 http://www.uncommon-parenting.com/?p=478#comment-3724 My boys are in a public elementary school, with over 1200 (yes, one thousand two hundred!) kids, K - 5th. I like how our school district handles these types of subjects. Yes, they "teach" responsibility and respect and other virtues throughout the curriculum...but more importantly each child is expected to exhibit those virtues EVERY day. They each earn a Self Manager badge (looks sort of like an employee badge, with a picture and hangs on a lanyard) at the beginning of the year. Each day they report (yes or no) to their teacher and their parents on their behavior on all seven virtues. They can lose their Self Manager badge, and they can earn it back. Of course, there is much more to the program...but it really seems to work. My boys are in a public elementary school, with over 1200 (yes, one thousand two hundred!) kids, K – 5th. I like how our school district handles these types of subjects. Yes, they “teach” responsibility and respect and other virtues throughout the curriculum…but more importantly each child is expected to exhibit those virtues EVERY day. They each earn a Self Manager badge (looks sort of like an employee badge, with a picture and hangs on a lanyard) at the beginning of the year. Each day they report (yes or no) to their teacher and their parents on their behavior on all seven virtues. They can lose their Self Manager badge, and they can earn it back. Of course, there is much more to the program…but it really seems to work.

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