Political Discourse - Listening to Grandmother

For over twenty years we have been teachers and instructors in etiquette and manners to children and adults!  The obvious question is to "why" for isn't this the responsibility of the parents?  Answer I hear over and over is YES ... but the parents - now going on for two generations - lifestyle does not provide the opportunity to teach children and now with computers and games it is even harder to ingrain the simple teaching of the golden rule:  Please respect others and yourself!

 Self-esteem of the 1980's never taught the flip of the coin and perhaps the most important ...  in teaching self-esteem to our children, we forgot to teach them the importance of respecting " others" at the same time .. fast forward to today ... now our leaders from wall street to main street care less about the other and therefore compromise their honor and integrity when given a choice for financial gain!  Tragedy yes ... but the pendulum is how shifting and we are getting avalanche of requests to teach these basic, moral principles of yesteryear!