7 old-fashioned manners today's parents should still teach their kids

Most parents intend to raise perfectly polished, well-mannered children - just like you see in all those movies about Victorian England.

But sometimes life gets in the way, and you're just too busy or exhausted to remind little Johnny to chew his hamburger with his mouth closed, for goodness sake.

"Everybody's so stressed out today," said Barbara Pachter, a business-etiquette expert and the author of "The Communication Clinic." "If you can get everybody at the table for dinner, it's an accomplishment. Sometimes some of this stuff just falls by the wayside."

We asked Pachter and Daniel Post Senning, the author of "Manners in a Digital World" and the great-great-grandson of Emily Post, to tell us about the seemingly old-fashioned manners that today's parents might be forgetting about.

Don't feel ashamed if you haven't made these a priority for your kids - by adopting them yourself, you can still act as a role model.