Miss Manners: Lamenting the loss of table manners

Dear Miss Manners: When I was increasing up, my parent was adamant that I larn due manners, particularly astatine the meal table. Bad array manners were my mother’s favored peeve, and they became mine, arsenic well.

I person a hard clip knowing wherefore different radical were not taught this increasing up. Am I conscionable old-school, and manners are outdated now? Even basal things person gone to the wayside, like: nary electronics astatine the table; hold till everyone is seated earlier starting to eat; don’t usage your fingers; inquire to beryllium excused earlier leaving the table; and truthful on.