I must be getting old, because when kids are being rude I complain that their parents aren't teaching them manners. Let this be a public apology to all those parents out there that I criticized. My preschool will say please and thank you for just about anything, but she can also be rude and pushy. I'm working on it, but I can now see that although parents are a huge contributing factor to children's manners, children can also be defiant all on ...