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If you are working on your children's manners, enjoy these great tips and suggestions! Of course, we all want our children to have good manners! It is important to learn when they are young, so as our children grow, they will be well socialized and polite people.
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No one wants a snotty or rude child. Their children will not make friends well in school and will find it hard to be welcomed at friend’s homes. Therefore, it is our job, as parents, to instill these manners in our children. Why we need to teach children manners?Good Manners tells our friends that we are thoughtful and not selfish. It is important to use good manners to make our friends feel important and special. If you help your friends, they will be sure to help you! This is important, not only as a child, but if you’re a mom or a dad. It is so nice when people can work together as a team. As parents, it is important that we be excellent role models and set an excellent example. Studies have shown adults with good manners find jobs easier than people with poor manners. They might even need to have a job interview at a restaurant. Then it’s real crucial to remember your table manners. Children’s Manners at the Table:
Blooming-babies.com offers a great placemat for teaching children table manners! This placemat reminds children of simple table manners that are important. Click here to shop for children's manners placemat Here are a few of the table manners the children’s placemat teaches: Wash your hands before eating Trust me! Your children are going to love learning their table manners with this placemat. 
Children’s Manners - Chocolate manners!This children’s manners game is perfect game for all chocolate lovers! You can substitute your favorite little treat if you don’t like chocolate. Look no further for the best way to remember your best manners! We call them chocolate manners. ….. Here is how we play. I wanted my daughters to remember their very best manners while playing with their friends. Sometimes, when you are two and four it is hard to share your favorite cup or shares your toys. So, I offer a few pieces of chocolate to reward my girl’s good behavior. If we are playing and all of a sudden someone isn’t playing nice. Then, you offer chocolate only to the children with chocolate manners. If the child who forgot their manners would like to earn their chocolate they must to like 5 or 10 nice chocolate manners behaviors. Your children's chocolate manners are not just the usual please and thank you. It also includes saying things like “Mommy, your hair looks very nice!” Or, be sure to have your children pay your friend a compliment “Emma, I really like your shirt.” It is so nice to hear your children talk so nice to their friends and family. Here are some important manners to teach young children:Children need to use your inside voice. You should always use your inside voice indoors. If your children start screaming you may want to open and place them outside. A friend did this with her screaming little boy. It was the middle of winter; she placed his coat on and placed him outside to scream. Children should not spit! - This is just gross. No throwing. I am not talking about a ball outside. We can’t throwing toys, wood chips or sticks at our friends. It doesn’t matter if it is at the park or at home we don’t throw things at other people. Children need to say excuse me if they burp or fart. This may happen but just say excuse me. It’s just nice manners! Teach your children to say please and thank you to their friends and family! Please and thank you can go a long way and get you extra treats. I really like treats! Who doesn’t? It is also nice manners to say I am sorry! If you accidentally hurt your friends or do something wrong you should say I am sorry! Children should say it and mean it. If not back to time out! Teach your children to look at you when they talk to your friends or family. Children need to take turns and wait in line patiently. When children are at the park with their friends they should wait their turn in line to use the slide. Children also need to take turns and share the swings and slides. Children should not push their friends! This is bad manners and not nice! Children need to hold the door for each other or their mom. My four year old does a great job holding the door when I am carrying lot of packages out the door. Praise Your Children’s Manners!It is important to praise your children’s good manners! Children love to be rewarded and praised! They just want to please us. So, with a little bit of reminding and praise, your children will have excellent manners! You will be so proud of your children. Reward Great your Children’s Manners! Now that your children have excellent manners, you may choose to reward your children by throwing a party. Make it a children friendly fancy party. This will be a chance for them to show off all their best manners. Depending on the age of your children you may want to keep it short. Offer to have a tea party for a few close friends and their moms. You may want to wear a pair of gloves and fancy dress. Set the table with a table cloth and glass dishes. You may choose to serve tea and cookies. Have your children serve treats to their friends first and remind them to use their best manners and wait for their friends to all be served before eating. They are going to have so much fun! They will look forward to showing off their good manners again!
Books to teach Children Manners:
Usborne Books offers a darling series called Cautionary Tales. They are created to teach children to be nice. These books are recommended for children, ages 4 and up. They are written by Phil Roxbee Cox. The titles in the series include: Our favorite is Say ‘please,’ Louise! I am sure you will love these darling stories and illustrations as much as we do! Click here to purchase these Usborne Books Children’s Cautionary tales. 
Children's Manners: "I want" gets you ...NOTHING!
When children say, "I want it," it sounds so awful! It's bad manners to say, "I want." What mother or father would want to hear "I want" all day from their children? Like all bad habits, they need to go, and this is where The Children's Guide is helpful. So, to help remember our very best manners, we have this fun saying. "'I want' gets you nothing!" It is a strong reprimand, yet also very inviting for parents wanting to teach a lesson. Then, the child will say it nicely, for example, "Mom, please may I have some milk?" Even the children have fun saying it to each other. In fact, they are sure to remind each other to say please. This catchy, little saying will have your children using their best manners and saying please all the time! 
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