Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
Margaret MeadI discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but nonpartisan eyes, I saw each of them as older or younger, bigger or smaller, more or less graceful, intelligent, or skilled than my own child.
Margaret Mead