QUESTION: Is there a way I could teach my child to keep his elbows off the table? Also, how do I help them learn to use napkins and to wait until everyone has been served before beginning to eat?

It's a familiar complaint: "Kids these days have no manners!" While it's easy to blame a generation, the truth is that good manners aren't something we're born with, it’s something that has to be ...

Mind Your Manners Academy’s mission is to provide children with knowledge and skills of social etiquette that will prepare ...

An etiquette adviser says busy parents are forgetting to instill the importance of 'please' and 'thank you' - but they matter ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’ve seen you say that we should not correct other people’s etiquette, even if they are being rude. In my experience, people do not apply this rule to children. I am teaching my ...

Manners are simply just the way we do things. They have become pretty well accepted as the way to behave. Another way to conceptualize manners is to think of them as ways to be considerate of others.

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:56:40 GMT — Imagine a board game that could teach your kids to be polite, social graces, and table manners with the roll of the dice. A North Carolina mom has created an award ...

It was a recent summer morning in a suburban kitchen. Classical music hummed pleasantly from a radio. Several extra children had slept over the night before, and the breakfast table was a cheerful ...

Just in time for those holiday thank-you notes and dinners at Grandma's house, a book lands on my desk called Soup Should Be Seen, Not Heard! a book of manners. The spiral-bound flip book is aimed at ...

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