| Parents attempt to teach their children at an early | | | | main ideas of manners and politeness. |
| age about manners, though some people may have a | | | | Manners can be used as synonym to politeness, |
| common misunderstanding about manners. There are | | | | though politeness is the most expectable |
| three things that make up the basis for manners; | | | | dissimulation. It is often really so. Parents and |
| they are consideration, common sense and customs. | | | | teachers attempt to teach the children good manners |
| Abel Stevens says that politeness is the art that | | | | and politeness, but are they, teaching good manners, |
| consists in choosing from someone’s own real | | | | taking their own advice? That is why we should |
| thoughts. Customs constitute a habit of doing definite | | | | strive to disprove the fact that politeness is often |
| things such as shaking hands or tipping hats. | | | | the most expectable hypocrisy. We can do that by |
| Consideration is the most significant concept behind all | | | | finding out what a person will do if she or he is alone |
| good manners. Very often a considerate person has | | | | or in public. |
| good manners. Consideration has a very simple | | | | Primarily, manners and politeness need to be an |
| definition; it consists in thinking about the way the | | | | integral part of relations at home. People should |
| other people feel. Almost all good manners have a | | | | respect the privacy of his or her family members, |
| component of common sense. For example, if you | | | | and be polite to them. It is also important to use |
| are in the back of an overcrowded elevator it is | | | | good table manners. We can see that all these small |
| neither wisely nor good manners to make an | | | | acts that often seem insignificant, are a sign of good |
| attempt to push your way through the crowd to the | | | | manners that help us to understand each other. |
| exit in order to get out first. These are the three | | | | |