Articles Tagged: manners

Do manners still matter?

By Olivia Gordon, May 18, 2012

David Cameron has said that children should stand up when a teacher - or even their parent - enters the room, prompting widespread debate.

A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I invited some of our parent friends round for dinner. These are people that we really like, but often we only manage a brief exchange at the school gates before the kids drag us away, moaning that they are hungry.

Polite notice: Please keep down your loud parenting!

By Laura Kemp, Mar 5, 2012

So there we were at soft play and I'd settled down while my son had gone off to run riot in the colourful cages of chaos. I had chocolate to the right of me, coffee to the left of me and I was happily logged onto the free wifi, ready to catch up with the world on my iPhone, when it happened.

Do you teach your children manners?

By Glynis Kozma, Feb 14, 2012

We are now more polite as a society than we were 20 years ago, according to the findings of the Young Foundation. If you regularly commute, battle with road rage or suffer surly shop assistants, this might come as a surprise to you. It did to me.

Your baby at 12 months

By Hilary Pereira, Feb 1, 2012

Your baby's first birthday is approaching, and there is much to celebrate. If he's not yet walking, he soon will be - and this presents more challenges for you in terms of keeping him safe and keeping up with him!

Achtung Baby: Finding just the right word

By Suze Nowak, Jan 8, 2012

I believe there are two sections of society who find bodily functions, specifically the unexpected or indeed calculated breaking of wind, gut-bustingly funny: 1) Anybody under the age of 13 2) All men.