365 Manners Kids Should Know: Games, Activities, and Other Fun Ways to Help Children Learn Etiquette

Sheryl Eberly

Harmony/Rodale, Dec 18, 2007 - Family & Relationships - 352 pages

If you’ve ever cringed at the sight of your ten-year-old waltzing through the neighbor’s front door without an invitation, or struggled to teach your teenager proper “netiquette” for navigating the complicated world of social networks, you know the importance of teaching kids that manners matter.
 
Sheryl Eberly’s bestselling 365 Manners Kids Should Know gives clever and insightful advice for the myriad situations where consideration counts, but is sometimes forgotten. This new edition incorporates tips for every aspect of digital communication into her straight-forward format.
 
Using a smart one-manner-a-day organization, parents, grandparents, and teachers alike can find practical ways to teach essential manners like:
 
-    When and where it’s appropriate to text
-    How to write a thank-you note
-    The proper way to handle an online bully
-    How to behave at events like birthday parties, weddings,and religious services
 
Full of role-playing exercises, games, and other activities that adults can do with children, 365 Manners Kids Should Know explains not only what manners to teach, but also how—and at what ages—to present them.
 

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• How early should you start teaching: 5
• Theres no place like home: 6
• Please thank you and Im sorry: 8
• Apologizing: 9
• Addressing others properly: 10
• Bow kiss or shake hands?: 11
• Respect for the feelings of others: 12
• Accept compliments: 13
• Give sincere compliments: 14
• Be on time: 16
• Respecting others: 17
• Anticipating the needs of others: 18
• Breaking items: 20
• Television: 22
• Your pets: 49
• When a friends parents are getting: 55
• Home alone answering the phone: 67
• Getting a wrong number: 71
• Accents: 77
• Unfriendly words: 83
• Asking noneofyourbusiness questions: 89
• Ten TNT discussion topics: 93
• Letters Thankyou Notes and EMails April 20 Stationery: 95
• When to write a thankyou note: 96
• Whats in a thankyou note?: 97
• Email or snail mail for a thankyou?: 98
• Writing a letter to a famous person: 99
• Writing a letter to ask for information: 100
• Writing a letter of appreciation: 101
• Signing a yearbook: 102
• Netiquette rules for your child: 103
• More Internet etiquette keeping kids safe: 104
• Nine nevers for Internet safety: 105
• Graffiti: 106
• Start the meal off right with proper posture: 108
• Everyday table manners: 109
• Dont bring these things to the table: 110
• Set the table properly: 111
• Formal table settings: 112
• Take formal table manners to dinner: 113
• Blowing on food: 114
• Paper trash at the table: 115
• Grace the art of giving thanks: 116
• Grace when youre visiting somene else: 117
• Passing food: 118
• Asking for a drink: 119
• Cutting meat: 120
• If your child is a vegetarian: 121
• Decoding spoons and forks: 122
• Using utensils correctly: 123
• Utensils after the meal: 124
• Napkin etiquette: 125
• Ten things your child should never do at: 126
• When to begin eating: 127
• Leaving the table early: 128
• Cleansing the palate: 129
• Using a finger bowl: 130
• At the end of a formal meal 131: 132
• When your child is allergic to certain foods: 133
• Afternoon tea: 134
• Setting the tea table: 135
• Preparing the tea: 136
• Its not a tea party without scones: 137
• Eating scones: 138
• The protocol of afternoon tea: 139
• Serving tea: 140
• What about coffee?: 141
• Removing items from your mouth: 142
• How to handle special diets: 143
• How to eat difficult foods: 144
• Eating bread: 145
• Eating a salad: 147
• How to eat dessert: 148
• How to eat pasta: 149
• Corn on the cob: 150
• Eating fried chicken: 151
• Eating an artichoke: 152
• Fun with fondue: 153
• Eating watermelon: 154
• Crunching ice: 155
• Eating crabs: 156
• Gravies condiments and relishes: 157
• Foreign matter in food: 158
• How to hold a glass: 159
• Eating in front of others: 160
• Awareness of others: 162
• Protecting others: 163
• Young men marks of distinction: 164
• Sitting and standing tall: 165
• When to wear a hat: 166
• Sitting gracefully: 168
• Accepting a date: 169
• Young women marks of distinction: 170
• Giving and Receiving July 24 The nicest way to issue a verbal invitation: 171
• How to issue a written invitation: 172
• Responding to invitations: 173
• When its okay to decline: 174
• When your child isnt invited: 175
• Movie manners: 177
• Seeing a movie with a friend: 178
• Take a seat: 179
• How to applaud: 180
• When to applaud: 181
• Intermission: 182
• At a museum: 183
• Museum tips: 184
• Reading a restaurant menu: 185
• Ordering from a menu: 186
• Confusing menu terms: 187
• Foreign words commonly found on menus: 188
• Restaurant protocol: 189
• More restaurant protocol: 190
• Handling problems in restaurants: 191
• Keeping your area neat at a restaurant: 192
• The people who work in a restaurant: 193
• What about tipping?: 194
• Things not to do in a restaurant: 195
• In a store: 196
• Butting into a line: 197
• On an escalator: 198
• Giving up your seat: 199
• Appointments: 200
• Forgetting an appointment: 201
• Basic Protestant weddings: 202
• Quaker weddings: 203
• Mormon weddings: 204
• Roman Catholic weddings: 205
• Eastern Orthodox weddings: 207
• At religious ceremonies: 208
• Jewish religious services: 209
• Protestant religious services: 210
• Quaker religious services: 211
• Catholic religious services: 212
• Christenings: 214
• Jewish birth ceremonies: 215
• Jewish confirmation bar and bat: 216
• Catholic traditions first communion: 218
• General audience with the pope: 219
• Semiprivate and private audiences: 220
• At a funeral home: 221
• Sitting shiva: 222
• At your childs own birthday party: 223
• Attending a birthday party: 224
• Receiving lines: 225
• Taking a child to a wedding: 226
• What to do at a wedding: 227
• When your child is a junior bridesmaid: 228
• If your child is a flower girl: 229
• Selfcontrol at a reception: 230
• Serving yourself from a buffet table: 231
• Hang on to your plate at a reception: 232
• Wearing flowers: 233
• The language of flowers: 234
• Getting an autograph: 235
• At a school dance: 237
• When your child is in front of the camera: 238
• Birthstones: 240
• Gifts: 241
• Choosing a gift: 242
• Gifts for the host: 243
• No gifts: 244
• Occasions to give a gift: 245
• Opening gifts at a party: 246
• When your child receives duplicate gifts: 247
• Christian holidays: 248
• Easter: 249
• Lent: 251
• Kwanzaa: 252
• Jewish holidays: 254
• Rosh Hashanah: 255
• Hanukkah: 256
• Knowing what to expect Ramadan: 257
• Quinceañera: 258
• Traveling on an airplane: 260
• Travel by train: 261
• How to tip on a trip: 262
• Consideration of others in a hotel: 263
• In the family car: 264
• When your child is a guest in a car: 265
• Camping thinking about others 266: 267
• Boating: 269
• A good attitude for a good guest: 270
• What a guest should pack: 272
• Nice things for a guest to say: 273
• How to become a guest who is invited: 274
• Being a good host: 275
• For firsttime guests: 276
• Serving food to your friends: 277
• The right guest list: 278
• Inviting friends over again: 279
• Sleepovers bathroom etiquette: 280
• Sleepovers mealtime etiquette: 281
• Guests go first: 282
• Enjoy the game: 284
• Rituals at athletic events: 285
• Good sportsmanship: 286
• Realistic attitude on the court or field: 287
• The valued teammate: 288
• The national anthem: 290
• Pledge of Allegiance: 291
• Care of the U S flag: 292
• Appreciating ideals and learning patriotism: 293
• When in another country: 294
• Being part of a community: 295
• Visiting someone who is sick: 297
• Relating to people with disabilities: 298
• People with visual problems: 300
• People with hearing loss: 301
• People in wheelchairs: 302
• Dress appropriately for the occasion: 304
• Jewelry: 306
• Perfumes: 307
• Grooming in public: 308
• Fresh breath: 309
• Oh no Ive gotta go: 310
• Posture communicates: 311
• Chewing gum: 312
• If your childs nose is running at the table: 313
• Wearing a name tag: 314
• Hands: 315
• Choking: 316
• In the hospital: 317
• Braces: 318
• Inappropriate touch: 319
• In Conclusion: 320

About the author

SHERYL EBERLY runs Distinctions, a company that presents manners instruction seminars to children, young adults, and businesspeople. She lives with her family in northern Virginia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: 365 Manners Kids Should Know: Games, Activities, and Other Fun Ways to Help Children Learn Etiquette
• Author: Sheryl Eberly
• Publisher: Harmony/Rodale, 2007
• ISBN: 0307419614, 9780307419613
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Life Stages / Adolescence; Family & Relationships / Parenting / General; Reference / Etiquette