One
of the things that is just about the cutest, sweetest and most
breathtaking sites is a toddler or small child with good manners.
Currently, I’m in the midst of trying to get my own offspring to
possess a pocketful of pleases and thank yous without having to be cued
to recite these pleasantries on demand. In the quest to instill some
manners, I checked out one of my child hood favorites on the subject
from my local library,
What Do you Say, Dear? By Sesyle Joslin and illustrated by the great Maurice Sendak.
I
had such fond memories of this book. As I read it to my toddler and got
to the pages with passages such as “You are a cowboy riding around the
range. Suddenly Bad-Nose Bill comes up behind you with a gun. He says
“Would you like me to shoot a hole in your head” What do you say dear?”
along with
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