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Parents not teaching their children manners

MANNERS are “the magic key” in life, but many children miss out on the basics as parents do not teach them, author and etiquette expert Patsy Rowe says.

Ms Rowe, who today releases her book, Manners Magic for Children, says failing to learn manners leaves children isolated.

“I think it’s almost cruel not to teach children manners,” she says. “Being the smartest kid in the class or the best athlete in the school are achievements to be proud of, but not if the teachers and coaches find you rude and your classmates and their parents dislike you.

“It’s stressful for children if they don’t know why the others don’t like them.”

Ms Rowe says parents need to be responsible for teaching children manners from an early age. “But some parents don’t know good manners to pass on, some thought it wasn’t important, some thought their children would absorb good manners by osmosis and some thought their children would somehow magically turn into polite adults. You can’t expect children to know these things if they haven’t been taught,” she says.

Bridgewater mother Libby Tweeddale started teaching children Jack, 11, Isobel, 9, and Eleanor, 5, manners when they were learning to talk.

“It’s never too early to start teaching manners,” she says. “

Ms Tweeddale says using good manners helps her children make friends.

“My kids get upset when kids at school are rude and don’t use their manners. The kids that don’t have nice manners are the ones who push and bully in the playground. No one likes them.”

Read more…AdelaideNow… Never too young to learn manners

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New website for Australian Stepfamilies

Seems like one door shuts, but another opens for Australian Stepfamilies.

There have been numerous changes to SASA over the past 12 months or so.  At the beginning of 2009 we moved our forums the Stepfamily Zone to a new website http://www.stepfamilyzone.com.au/forums

Now as of the 1st January, after 10 years, SASA no longer exists. Not gone completely or forever, but instead has gone into hibernation.

The good news is that a new website is now being developed Stepfamily Australia

The SASA will remain in place mainly because of the amount of information that can be found here.

The development of Stepfamily Australia, in our opinion, is essential to ensure that information and support is available to Stepfamilies in Australia

Read more…Home – Stepfamily Association of South Australia

Single mums facing child support cuts

SINGLE mums will receive between $10 and $100 less each week from their former partners after the Child Support Agency sends 1.5 million parents new assessments by the end of this week.

By July 1, about 60 per cent of divorced fathers will pay less under the overhaul of the system.

The lobby group representing single parents is urging the Rudd Government to review rules passed by the Howard government two years ago that drastically changed the system.
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Coastal dads top nation’s child-pay shame

FATHERS in coastal regions are the nation’s worst offenders when it comes to shirking child-support payments.

New data shows many parents, most of them fathers living in Queensland’s resort towns have turned their backs on their children.

Child Support Agency statistics show parents in leading tourist destinations including Broadbeach, Mermaid Beach and Palm Beach, on the Gold Coast, and Deception Bay, north of Brisbane, are the least likely to meet their child-support payments.
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