Parental Roles In Socializing Children 
Parental Roles in Socializing Children about Dining and Manners Etiquette
Socialization is the process by which knowledge, values, beliefs, and behaviors are taught to members of the community.
Norms are standards of proper and acceptable behaviors.
Manners are the characteristics or customary mode of acting.
Etiquette is the conduct or procedure required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be observed in social or official life.
What are the challenges from a multicultural perspective in defining norms for manners and dining etiquette for families in the USA?
There are a wide variety of ethnic groups in this country and it would be difficult to define a norm for manners and etiquette and expect all groups to follow it because they all are from different cultural backgrounds.
What are “Manners” and do they vary depending on who you are from a socioeconomic and ethnic perspective?
Manners are ways of behaving in reference to polite standards. I don’t think that manners directly have anything to do with your socioeconomic status nor your ethnic background because we are all usually taught about manners at an early age. I feel that that perhaps the occasional rudeness that comes along with the upper class was developed later, not taught.
Describe your first memory of your parent(s) providing expectations/guidelines for you or other family members regarding the use of appropriate behavior related to dining and manners in the home and outside the home at restaurants, school, family gatherings and etc.?
As a child, I remember having to sit down at the table with my brothers for all of our meals. And at my grandmother’s house, we couldn’t move from the table until everything was gone from our plates.
How was it a pleasant or punitive experience? In what ways did it have a lasting impact and in what way does it continue to influence you today?
This all taught me the importance of family and it also forced us to talk to each other, which I think is a
Socialization is the process by which knowledge, values, beliefs, and behaviors are taught to members of the community.
Norms are standards of proper and acceptable behaviors.
Manners are the characteristics or customary mode of acting.
Etiquette is the conduct or procedure required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be observed in social or official life.
What are the challenges from a multicultural perspective in defining norms for manners and dining etiquette for families in the USA?
There are a wide variety of ethnic groups in this country and it would be difficult to define a norm for manners and etiquette and expect all groups to follow it because they all are from different cultural backgrounds.
What are “Manners” and do they vary depending on who you are from a socioeconomic and ethnic perspective?
Manners are ways of behaving in reference to polite standards. I don’t think that manners directly have anything to do with your socioeconomic status nor your ethnic background because we are all usually taught about manners at an early age. I feel that that perhaps the occasional rudeness that comes along with the upper class was developed later, not taught.
Describe your first memory of your parent(s) providing expectations/guidelines for you or other family members regarding the use of appropriate behavior related to dining and manners in the home and outside the home at restaurants, school, family gatherings and etc.?
As a child, I remember having to sit down at the table with my brothers for all of our meals. And at my grandmother’s house, we couldn’t move from the table until everything was gone from our plates.
How was it a pleasant or punitive experience? In what ways did it have a lasting impact and in what way does it continue to influence you today?
This all taught me the importance of family and it also forced us to talk to each other, which I think is a