Tips on how to Teach your Child Table Manners

Learning table etiquette takes some time to get discouraged. Sometimes children behave like pigs in the house, but they behave completely when they are guests in someone else’s house. So they are listening to your level to some degree.

Don’t bother your kids about it. It can have the opposite effect. They enjoy harassing you by wiping their milk or accidentally coming to the table with their hands.

You can commend a guest for displaying good manners, such as delivering a dish or saying “please” and “thank you.”

Do not prepare food items on the battlefield and constantly tell your children about all the things they are doing. This is a perfect way to kill yours and theirs hunger. Also, being part of a polite community does not interest them.

Set an example for yourself. If you do not expect your child to come to your lunch with your favorite comic book, do not read the paper in the morning while eating your breakfast.

Don’t get into the habit of saying “pig” or “slogan” every time he does things in a ‘propa’ manner. If you were going to label him that way, he did not see any point in trying to improve because he thought he would become a “pig” in his nature.

Give your child a break and tell him he can pig himself when he is alone so he doesn’t get angry with anyone then. If she is alone, do not slap her face with a handkerchief.

While having fun at home, involve your children to start or set the table so that they can see themselves for the functioning of the polite community. Table etiquette at your local McDonald’s is so rare that you can try to take them to a ‘real’ restaurant once. Make it an opportunity for them to love it.

Do not encourage competitions where your child can start at the table with their friends. Make it clear that you feel rude and insulting and certainly not funny.

It takes some time to not get frustrated. Sometimes children behave like pigs in the house, but they behave completely when they are guests in someone else’s house. So they are listening to your level to some degree.