Sunday, April 13, 2008

Hannah's Sunday quotes


Hannah kept us laughing yesterday...

We were driving home from church and I asked Hannah about Primary.

Me: How was Sunbeams?
Hannah: Good
Dan: All of the girls took their shoes off in class.
Me: That's funny.
Hannah: That's not funny, mama. That's cool!

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Later, Dan and I were working on dinner in the kitchen. Out of the blue, Hannah calls out from the living room,

Hannah: Mama, get the gate.
Me: What gate?
Hannah: The gate for the kitchen. (We used to put up a child gate when Jane was younger)
Me: Why should I get the gate?
Hannah: So I won't bug you in there.

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Even later, we were out visiting friends and as we were leaving Hannah said "good-bye" but not "thank you" for the many DVDs our friends let us borrow. Lately she will not say thank you to anyone. We've been trying to teach her good manners. We even have a Dora book about manners hoping that she would at least listen to Dora if not to us. Nothing doing. When it comes time to say thank you, she averts her eyes and buries her head.
On our walk home, a woman stopped us to ask us for directions. After we helped her, she thanked us and I said to Hannah,

Me: See Hannah? We did something nice for that woman and she said thank you. That's good manners. Can you say thank you when someone does something nice for you?
Hannah: No, I don't have good manners.

She said it so matter-of-fact that I'm not sure there's hope...

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2 Comments:

At 4/14/2008 2:26 PM, Blogger 100 Percent Cottam said...

hee hee, love those! i don't have good manners!! that's great. maya will say thank you, but getting her to say sorry is the worst.

 
At 4/14/2008 3:57 PM, Blogger Marisa said...

I wonder why kids have such a hard time with this?! One time when Kaylee was being rather rude and not using manners, I asked her where her manners were. She looked at me and, as serious as could be, told me she had left them at Nana Sue's when we were in Utah. Nice. We had to call and ask Nana Sue to mail them back to us.

 

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