Manners
latest manners news and features
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The New Old-Fashioned Parent. Why do we need to go back to the old ways?
This column is about bringing back old-fashioned, common sense parenting but in a way that...
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Isn't 'running around with no sense of purpose' what toddlers do?
I'm really worried about our toddler. I watched her this morning as she spun in circles, shouting...
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Do you worry that other people judge you as a parent?
So, we're sat there at the dinner table: my wife and I, our two sons, my mum, her fiancé, my sister...
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Are we allowed to tell other people's children off?
Woe betide any unruly kids at our local swimming baths when I were a girl. My mum had a thing about...
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Manners are a thing of the past for grandchildren - say their grandmothers!
Dec 5th, 2012Good manners in children are a thing of the past, according to the nation’s grandmothers.
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The House Dad Chronicles: Is it my job to teach other people's kids to say please and...
I was chatting to a fellow holidaymaker in a caravan park playground recently when his...
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David Cameron has said that children should stand up when a teacher - or even their parent - enters...
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A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I invited some of our parent friends round for dinner. These...
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Polite notice: Please keep down your loud parenting!
So there we were at soft play and I'd settled down while my son had gone off to run riot in the...
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