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The Manners Pig: A Creative Way to Teach Table Manners

By  Kelly  on November 7, 2016      Parents regularly tell me that the highest area of manner “pain” for them is table manners. We eat three meals a day. Even when your kids go off to school and the patient cafeteria workers get to observe them for 5 meals a week, you can STILL be brought to the verge of insanity by the licking, shoveling and tooting that takes place at YOUR dinner table during the other meals. I know you.  You have told me. And as a mom to three kids, I totally get it. Although my kids are of college and high school age, I occasionally need to remind. (Cough. Cough.) The kids would refer to it as nagging. I refer to it as doing my job as Mom; teaching them important life skills that will make others find them a pleasure to be around.  And maybe even help them get a job someday. No one wants to dine with a boor. Oh noooooo. No one. I’m often asked if there is any magical way to have your darling dinners minding their meal time manners....