Katherine FlanneryA Kids' Guide to Manners

Bought this as a Christmas gift for my stepsons incredibly bad mannered girlfriend. Despite being easy to read and well laid out, it wouldn’t appear that she has read it as she didn’t even say Thank you for the thoughtful gift. Obviously this book is no substitution for good parenting & teaching manners from an early age. Lucky me!

full of good info, but the tone is a bit hectoring and condescending...soften it when reading aloud...

Adorable. Fun and easy to read.

Some of the messages in the book did not align with what I want teach my kid hence i returned it. It says at the beginning in the very first chapter that kids with good manners impress adults and when adults are impressed with the “well-behaved” kids, they would get later bedtimes, larger allowances, be more liked and so on so forth.As much as we want our kid to know and have good manners, i don’t think this is the way to teach them. It goes against conscious parenting and their worth/value should not be dependent on whether they said hello or thank you. If anything these kind of messages teach you that good manners pleases other people and do we really want our kids to become people pleasers?!I understand the importance of good manners and we should teach our kids manners only because manners are important and we should all play our part to make this world more loving and peaceful. DEFINITELY NOT to please/impress adults or to get later bedtimes etc.Conclusion: I won’t recommend this book.

Bought this book and dedicated a little bit of time each day to read a few pages with my 6-year-old son.We take the time to stop after each paragraph, page, and examples to reflect on what was read or discussed so that he may ask questions.It has been an incredible experience to help us bond and for us to improve not only his behaviour but my perspectives as an adult too.Thank you for writing this!