Alison Broadbent

HI Katie,

I've got a 4 1/2yo boy who i never have said he need to say these sorts of
things. I don' like to see moms and Dads saying in that singsongy voice,
"What to say now, say Thank you . No we didn't do that w/ help please and
thank you, He Just says it unbidden. Mostly. there are some time when he
might be quite taken by something that was given to him and merge with it.
What I d then is whisper in his hear that he might want to that that person
who gave it to him. One time I suggested that if he needed to interrupt,
saying, excuse me was a good way to go. Now I hear him on the playground
saying excuse me, excuse me so much so that one of his cousins turned w/
disdain and told him he didn't have o say it TTHAT much I think he could
use the word a bit more judiciously but that's him.

As people have said, it's natural when it's modeled.

Aliosn