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Teach Your Children Good Manners Over a Cup of Tea

(Editor’s note: please welcome Veronica with some suggestions for teaching manners in a fun way. Thanks, Veronica!) We all want our children to behave, especially around others. So how do we teach our little ones to behave like we want to? In my book it isn’t...

Magic Manners at Mealtime Winners

All right, gang. I went through the comments at the Magic Manners post and listed everyone in order of their comment. Assuming I got it correctly, the list is as follows. (Next time I’m going to remember not to chatter in the comments of a giveaway post so I...

Review and Giveaway: Magic Manners at Mealtime

Rocky Stayart from MagicManners.com has written an adorable book to help you teach children ages 2-7 their manners. There are so many great features to this book that I just had to show it to you directly. See the video below. Rocky was kind enough to send me a copy...

Helping Your Kids Value Manners

(editor’s note: please enjoy this lovely post written by Laura Pulido, CEO of The Protocol Institute) “Without good manners, human society becomes intolerable.” George Bernard Shaw As parents, we may find ourselves questioning the need to...

Definitely Feeling the Minority Status

So, I’m in the middle of reading a blog post or two while the boys get their books out for afternoon lessons. TechnoBoy and The Mercenary have decided for some reason to work on their physical humor. This includes pretending to hit a post and falling to the...