8 Table Manners Every Kid Should Know By Age 8

February 19, 2015

In our house, we use three main techniques to teach table manners: teaching the skill, explaining the reason behind it, and role-playing. We also rely on older siblings to help set an example for younger siblings, a method that occasionally backfires when being older means you know how to burp the alphabet. We aren’t crazy strict about it, but we do set behaving properly at…

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