But if you’re already doing that and still feel like you’re failing, check out these tips from an expert who has more than 30 years experience helping families as a licensed clinical social ...

Picture yourself at Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey and stuffing slathered in gravy on your plate. Mashed potatoes making their way around the table. Good cheer emanating from everywhere. “If they ...

One of her standard jabs is to bring me a gift with an insult attached. How does a polite person respond to repeated insults ...

A new British Library site surfaces some treasures online, include the Lytille Childrenes Lytil Boke, which tells kids what not to do in polite company. 500-year-old manners book advises kids to ...

TEACH TABLE MANNERS Tell the kids: Make sure your face and hands are clean before you sit down. Put your napkin in your lap. Use your napkin to wipe your face, not the back of your hand.

Paula Person, founder of a program called The Children`s Spoon, which teaches social manners to young people, collects books on tea. She knows all about the aromatic beverage and about that time ...

A Complete Manners Book for Kids." The latest edition, updated for today's children, recently won the Mom's Choice Gold Award for best children's media, products and services.

Teaching kids manners may not be parents' most enjoyable task, but there are some ways to make the process go as smoothly as possible. · Teach by example. It's no secret that children learn many ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: We host my husband’s sister and her husband for dinner at least once a week. Both of them have terrible table manners. While it bugs me, I could ignore it if it weren’t for ...

Dear Miss Manners: I’d like to have a party for my daughter’s 4th birthday.However, I’d like to avoid getting a bunch of plastic junk that she’ll look at once and then throw in a corner ...

GOSHEN — A local children’s author will present her new book at Fables Books at 10:30 Saturday with a special reading. Sheila L. Rutter’s “Amelia Teaches Manners” was released by Austin ...