Mothers’ Role in Developing Children Social Behavior 'Etiquette'

Abstract

Throughout history, people tried to regulate the relationship between a person and those around him and named it "etiquette" or behavioral manners among the people and the ethics of upscale conduct and gentle behavior. Delicate social behavior was considered the balance of progress among nations and virtues were considered the measure of this behavior. Since family is the basic unit in building any human society and it is the first school where children receive their knowledge and guidance; a person receives his first life lessons at home, then gradually grows up to school and then university, and finally degrades in the midst of public life where he receives his last lessons of expertise, experience and advice. Through all of these stages, family and school lives, a person finds himself in front of the ethics and rules of home, school, university and family. He must abide by its boundaries. As children have trends, whims and natures transferred to them by virtue of genetic heredity from their parents or the community, it is necessary for parents to reconcile between those genetic tendencies and acquisitive natures and what the ethics and life rules do as foundations of true and proper education that qualifies children to be useful members of the larger human society.