I swear we do use manners!  Yes...we belch, snort, toot, and occasionally eat without utensils at the table, but albeit...we eat at the table EVERY meal.  I did not grow up in a house where we ate at the table as a family.  1, 2, maybe even 3 of us managed to sit at the table at the Mama Jelly Belly household, but truthfully...we all ate as a family...watching TV.  With the merging of Daddy JB and myself; we have compromised our family eating arrangements with our own kids..  We eat at the table and 2/3 of the time the TV is on.  How is that for carrying over my childhood experiences?  Tonight was "kung-foo" noodles (the kiddos have named this meal after the movie, Kung-Fu Panda) as per Ms. JB's dinner request.  I tried to teach Ms. JB how to politely separate her noodles so that she didn't have to eat them all in one bite, but as you can see...that lesson didn't work out too well!