It’s official: the UK’s children are ill-mannered and ill-disciplined brats with a shocking disregard for proper table manners, says The Register, quoting The Telegraph, quoting a poll from Pizza Express published today, which asked 1,140 people how kids should conduct themselves, “the notion of good table manners has changed”.
I disagree. The notion of good table manners hasn’t changed. The notion that parents are responsible for ensuring their children are well behaved has changed.
Even the French can beat enough sense into their children to make them sit down and behave for the duration of a mealtime, so why is it so hard for the Brits?