re: The Girl Scouts Idea of a Merry Christmas

Do you have kids hank? A boy or girl?

I have both. 4 and 1.

Kids are rude and self centered. If I didn’t harp on the 4 year old (boy) to say thank you when he gets a gift, or hug his Grammie when she does something nice, or display gratitude in some other way, he wouldn’t do it, and wouldn’t learn that it was important at all.

Edit: Does this teach him he needs to give a hand job to his buddy when he lends him his truck?

We don’t order him to hug anyone on the street, we tell him to hug family that we know it is appropriate to do so. We will do the same to our girl when she is old enough. He is 4, he doesn’t know when it is appropriate. We as his parents, do.