Teaching Kids Good Table Manners

Video Transcript

"Good manners are very important for kids, especially in the world we're living today where a lot of them has been lost. I'm Hazely Lopez, from Hazely Academy of Refinement and Modeling, and I'm here to talk to you about, how to teach kids good table manners. We're going to start by, first of all you have to look for some research, and this is going to help you a lot help your kid be successful. You have to make it fun, if you don't make it fun, they're not going to pay attention, especially when you're teaching them things that comes to the table, which is already hard enough for them to get to. Some things that may help you are books or on-line, or anything that's going to help you definitely try to make it more fun for them. You're definitely going to think about trying to look for things that help them, like things that they like to eat instead of things that they don't like to eat. You want to think about also manners as how to sit, how to talk, don't speak with their mouth full of food, what to say and what not to say in a table, of course with a glass of water, not be slurping with your straw, and other things like that. There's a lot of manners that go into the table. So teaching the basics is definitely going to help you a lot, helping you also have a grown mannered boy or girl. I'm Hazely Lopez, from Hazely Academy of Refinement and Modeling, and remember, manners is the key to success."