Manners Matter

Whitney Hopler

Do your children ever answer the phone with inarticulate grunts, neglect writing thank-you notes for birthday and Christmas gifts, or play with their food while dining out?

If so, there's hope. They can learn good manners, and teaching them doesn't have to be difficult.

Here are some ways you can teach your children good manners:

Adapted from You Can Raise a Well-Mannered Child, copyright 1996 by June Hines Moore. Published by Broadman & Holman Publishers, Nashville, Tn., www.lifewaystores.com, 1-800-448-8032.

June Hines Moore designs and conducts interpersonal communication seminars for universities, corporations, and professional and Christian organizations. She has also taught social graces from a Christian perspective to more than 500 children and teens, and is the author of the "Moore on Manners" column in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

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