Many grown men, nevermind six-year-olds, don’t know what it means to be polite and have good table manners, but this mom is making sure her son learns these important lessons early.
Every month, this 6-year-old boy named Lyle takes his mom out on a dinner date to a restaurant where he not only opens doors for her, pulls out her chair, and ask each other questions about their day, but also pays the bill with the money he’s earned from his chores. “Too many men these days have no idea how to treat women or how to take them on a nice date. It’s nice to know my son won’t be one of them,” mom Nikkole Paulun said.
“I am teaching him how to treat a lady & how to take her on a proper date. How to show that he respects the woman he loves (right now that would be mommy).”
“We put our phone and iPad away (except to take this photo) and sit and talk to each other about our days, things we want to do, etc,” Paulun wrote on a post to Facebook. I’m teaching him proper table manners and that it’s rude to sit on your phone on a date with your mom or with anyone else. He learns the value of money and how to manage it.“
“Yes, he is young, but I believe this is something he should learn now. It’s never too early to teach your child how to properly respect others, especially women. As a woman who has been abused & treated like crap in the past, it’s extremely important to me that I teach my son how to show respect,” Paulun wrote.
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[Featured image credit: Facebook/ Nikkole Paulun]