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Attitudes of respect, modesty and fair play can grow only out of slowly acquired skills that parents teach their children over many years through shared experience and memory. If a child reaches adulthood 21 recollections only of television, Little League and birthday parties, then that child has little to 22 when a true test of character comes up--say, in a (n) 23 business situation. " 24 that child feels grounded in who he is and where he comes from, 25 else is an act," says etiquette expert Betty Jo Trakimas. The Dickmeyers of Carmel, Indiana, 26 every Friday night as "family night" with their three children. Often the family plays board games or hide-and-seek. "My children love it," says Theresa, their mother. Can playing hide-and-seek really teach a child about manners? Yes, says Trakimas and 27 , because it tells the child that his parents 28 enough to spend time with him, he is loved and can learn to love others. "Manners aren't about using the 29 fork," Trakimas adds, "Manners are about being kind--giving 30 , team-playing, making tiny sacrifices. Children learn that 31 their parents. While children don't 32 warm to the idea of learning to be polite, there's no reason for them to see manners as a bunch of dreary 33 either. They're the building blocks of a child's education. " 34 a rule becomes second nature, it frees us," Trakimas says. How well could Tiger Woods play golf if he had to keep 35 himself of the rules?