QUESTION: Is there a way I could teach my child to keep his elbows off the table? Also, how do I help them learn to use napkins and to wait until everyone has been served before beginning to eat?

Do you feel hideously inadequate around moms with calm, composed, well-mannered children (surely their kids don’t slap random strangers at a museum)? Not surprisingly, modeling good behavior is key to ...

Saying “please” and “thank you” is only the start. Here's how to raise a well mannered child… What manners are important in your family? Make a list that includes saying please and thank you, sharing, ...

Children’s etiquette isn’t what it used to be. Case in point: One of my students nailed me in the head with a doughnut. I ...

Manners are simply just the way we do things. They have become pretty well accepted as the way to behave. Another way to conceptualize manners is to think of them as ways to be considerate of others.

When you think about manners, do you imagine a thick book filled with old-fashioned rules governing what some consider good behavior? Or small acts of good conduct performed to impress people? Sheryl ...

Ask etiquette expert Treva Mayo the proper way to shake hands, and she gives you a firm answer: Fingers together. Thumbs up. Two pumps from the elbow. No more. Manners may have evolved from the Golden ...

Dr. Jodi Stoner and Lori Weiner, authors of the new book, "Good Manners are Contagious," are on a mission to change how kids interact with the rest of the world. Their book offers tangible strategies ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Sometimes we wonder if anybody out there is still teaching manners to their kids and it now the practice is literally going to the dogs. Most people were taught manners and etiquette ...

My column of Oct. 16 contained a complaint from Linda Rabben about rowdy teenage behavior on Metrorail. Ms. Rabben suggested that teachers instruct students how to behave on public transportation. She ...

CAIRO, Il. (KFVS) - Social skills, manners, and etiquette. That is what a Heartland man brings to young people in his community, one workshop at a time. Harold S. Jones runs a Fine Arts Center in ...