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Are You Rude at Work? Your Kids May Suffer

Who's never been there?  A c o-worker takes credit for your work.  Or tells the boss something he told you in private?  Being rude to these people is hard to resist. It seems rudeness has become a way of life today.  But experts are warning that it may be something really bad we're teaching our children , according to newswise.com. Like most of us, I try to set a good example for my son.  At 17 he's pretty much who he's going to be, but it never hurts to remind our kids of the good, decent behavior we so rarely see in our government officials these days. A new study has found that incivility in the workplace -- big duh -- is associated with more negative parenting behavior. When people are rude to their coworkers or treat them badly, they probably don’t realize the unintended victims in that encounter could be the coworkers’ children. Women who experience incivility in the workplace are more likely to engage in stricter, more authoritarian parenting ...