1915 Parenting and Manners Advice

As for table manners, the active child who from his earliest years has been accustomed to regular meals of simple food with sufficient variety for his health and. pleasure will be hungry enough at mealtime to eat anything that is put before him. If, from the beginning, he has been encouraged by example, then good table manners will be as natural as breathing. – Etiquipedia private family library image of a mother and her children in 1915.

HAVE YOU BETTER MANNERS THAN YOUR CHILDREN?

IN THE COURSE of a very interesting  article entitled “Your Children’s Manners” in the Woman’s Home Companion, appears the following wise comment:

“Good Company manners depend upon good home manners. As for table manners, the active child who from his earliest years has been accustomed to regular meals of simple food with sufficient variety for his health and. pleasure will be hungry enough at mealtime to eat anything that is put before him. If, from the beginning, he has been encouraged by example, then good table manners will be as natural as breathing. They will be a part of him, and he will make use of them wherever he is. 

“The place for a parent to begin training the manners of her child is with her own manners. Whenever a mother complains of the bad manners of her child, she is unconsciously lodging a complaint against herself as a mother. The old ideal of training in behavior was based largely upon the principle of the child’s consideration for its elders; the modern principle demands also the eledrs’ consideration for the child.” – San Pedro Pilot, 1915

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