Reply #65: My parents didn't insist on us kids using "sir" and "ma'm", but they did insist

[Arkansas Granny]

that we remember our manners and use them all the time, everytime, with anyone we had any dealings with regardless of age, sex, race, etc. When taught like that, the use of manners becomes so automatic that you don't even have to think about it and kids and grandkids just seem to pick up the habit quite naturally.

As far as name calling, that would have gotten any of us kids, in any generation, into some serious trouble. When I was in 8th grade, calling a teacher a "fucking bitch" probably would have gotten us expelled for the school year. It was just not heard of.