Comments on: Table Manners http://abchomepreschool.com/PreschoolEducationBlog/2007/06/19/table-manners/ Preschool Curriculum Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:22:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Sandra Dutton http://abchomepreschool.com/PreschoolEducationBlog/2007/06/19/table-manners/#comment-28 Sandra Dutton Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:39:50 +0000 http://www.abchomepreschool.com/PreschoolEducationBlog/2007/06/19/table-manners/#comment-28 I agree. Manners should be taught in stages. A child doesn't have the physical coordination to hold the fork properly, but eventually gains it. Most important is the modeling of the proper manners. I remember being out with my father at a restaurant and his showing me how to cool soup--not by blowing on it but by lifting up it up by the spoonful and returning it to the soup. Kids can feel very grown up learning (and practicing!) things like that-- Sandra Dutton, author of "Dear Miss Perfect: A Beast's Guide to Proper Behavior." I agree. Manners should be taught in stages. A child doesn’t have the physical coordination to hold the fork properly, but eventually gains it. Most important is the modeling of the proper manners. I remember being out with my father at a restaurant and his showing me how to cool soup–not by blowing on it but by lifting up it up by the spoonful and returning it to the soup. Kids can feel very grown up learning (and practicing!) things like that–

Sandra Dutton, author of “Dear Miss Perfect: A Beast’s Guide to Proper Behavior.”

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