OK I know I have been horribly neglectful of my lovely group of ladies, but I am going to try and stop that. I have been very sick for a long time and it just has been hard to keep up with everything. However, I am finally starting on a treatment program that seems to be working and hopefully in the next 30 to 60 days I will be as right as I can be again!
So let's talk about spitting. What is the world coming to? Lately it seems like every time I turn around I see someone spitting, on the sidewalk in front of the store, out of their car door or window, it just disgusts me. I don't care how old you are there is just no reason for you to spit in public! Go find a rest room and spit in a sink PLEASE! I am BEGGING you.
Every child experiments with it though so you have to make sure and use others as an example if they see some one doing it, take it as a chance to talk about it as being a dirty and rude thing to do. No one wants to be spit near or in front of. Gross.
So have you ever seen someone spit and actually said anything about it? I haven't personally but have come wildly close a couple of times. What do you think?
Whenever there's a question in the CM Answers section about pet peeves, I respond with public spitting. I will give a pass to marathon runners during an actual marathon, people caught in dust storms, those suddenly attacked by gnats and those who just, without warning, coughed up a lung, but I so rarely see any of these examples. I usually just see someone spitting out a car window or on the street while they walk. Tissues, anyone? Even running shorts have little pockets that can hold a tissue or hanky if you're likely to have an issue with your saliva. I've never actually said anything to anyone I didn't know, but I recall once telling a male friend "eew, that was gross!" after he spit on the ground. It's a good point that I can use it as an example of inappropriate behavior when I'm with my daughter.
I have said it. I was a Corrections Officer, and on more than just the manners part, it is also unhealthy. The germs are discusting and for people to spit, and then you to have to walk in it, if you don't see it, and then bring that home to your family. Just gross!
I would ask the inmates, where I worked, to please not spit in front of me. Most of them wouldn't do it again after being asked.
Oh my Gosh I NEVER thought about the health side of it before... that is a really good point! EWE now I am even more freaked out LOL!
Sorry. Didn't mean to freak or gross you out with that. lol. That is just where my mind goes with the work I was doing. It is pretty discusting on the health side of things, not to mention it's just poor manners. lol.
Oh I can take anything, you don't need to apologize, I think you become genuinely desensitized to certain things when you have a toddler LOL Potty training makes it hard to be offended by a friend telling a story about spitting LOL!
I work with special ed children. We have this 7 yr old boy who spits in the class. The principal and assistant principal says write him up. Well he does lot more then spitting He evens blows his nose and aims the snot as you...throws chairs, uses bad languages, hides under desks, and tears apart school property. O ladies there is lot more to add to the list but my fingers are getting tired. O yes and other thing the schools says his mom won't come in and discussion what can be done for this child,
Well what are you supposed to do if you don't have the backing of the parent?!?!?!?! You poor thing! That is ridiculous, I mean the child, well that behavior can be modified hopefully, but your job as a teacher isn't basic social skills like that...it's not right or fair. I don't know maybe it is different with special needs children, but I see teachers here being asked to raise our kids from a moral perspective because parents are too lazy to do it themselves and it just sickens me!
Hugs to you!
It is horrible that you have to deal with that!! And the parents not wanting to come in? What are you supposed to do? Do people not realize what a hard job you already have? Also, how can a behavior be corrected if it is not followed through in all aspects of that child's life, home and school?
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- MrsManners
on Feb. 28, 2011 at 2:26 PM