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How To: Teach Your Kids Good Manners

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”– Emily Post In 365 Ways to Help Your Children Grow, the authors offer many wonderful activities aimed at teaching kids manners. Here are some of my favorites. (1) Top Ten Manners Your kids will look to you for guidance on how they should behave. When teaching manners, make sure you brush up on your own. Make a list of ten manners you want each of your kids to have and work on one manner a … Continue reading →

Are Parents To Blame For School Bullying?

Bad parenting is to blame for school bullying. At least in Japan, according to a recent Yomiuri Shimbun survey. It seems most of those surveyed believe bullying is caused by parents failing to teach their children social rules. Respondents were asked to select from eight choices what major factors they believed was the cause of bullying. Bad parenting received 65%, 55% cited children’s lack of empathy for others, 52% said parents not being aware of the suffering of their kids, 48% blamed insufficient capabilities of the teachers and 45% blamed the schools for evading their responsibility by concealing bullying cases. … Continue reading →