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Elbows Off the Table, Napkin in the Lap, No Video Games During Dinner: The Modern Guide to Teaching Children Good Manners Paperback - 1996

by Carol MCD Wallace

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One of the foremost experts on both children and manners offers a clear, contemporary guide to what today's parents should teach their children, when to teach it, and how to do so without turning home into boot camp. The book is divided into age-appropriate sections for easy reference.

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Once upon a time girls stopped wearing dresses to school and put on jeans and tie-dyed T-shirts. It was the Age of Aquarius, when old rules of behavior no longer seemed to apply. But now that the flower children have children of their own, they're starting to wonder what the new rules ought to be.

Manners expert Carol McD. Wallace, who has two sons of her own, comes to the rescue with a clear, contemporary guide to what today's parents should teach their children, when to teach it, and how to do so with turning their homes into boot camp. Here, in the kind of knowing detail only a parent could offer, are step-by-step guides to:
--Basic Training: The dawn of civilized behavior, or how to teach 3- to 5-year-olds to behave at meals, say "please" and "thank you", share, and apologize.
--The Age of Reason: Refining the manners of 6- to 9- year-olds at home and abroad.
--The Young Sophisticate: How to bring the manners of 10- to 12- year olds to high polish and, --Manners for Parents: Everything from when it's okay to bring your child into work to privacy--your own and your children's.

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  • Title Elbows Off the Table, Napkin in the Lap, No Video Games During Dinner: The Modern Guide to Teaching Children Good Manners
  • Author Carol MCD Wallace
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st trade paper
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Griffin, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1996-01-15
  • Features Index
  • ISBN 9780312141226 / 031214122X
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Theometrics: Secular
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Reference
  • Library of Congress subjects Etiquette for children and teenagers
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95043788
  • Dewey Decimal Code 395.122

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Citations

  • Booklist, 02/01/1996, Page 903
  • Library Journal, 02/01/1996, Page 92
  • Rec Ref Bks in Paperback, 01/01/2000, Page 261

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