One of my FAVORITE games I learned to do with kids is the "gift" game. Everyone sits in a circle and closes their eyes while someone puts a "gift " in the shoebox. Then everyone goes around taking a turn to open the box and say something they appreciate about the gift. I.e. "I like how smooth this rock is," "This marble has cool swirls." And it's great when everyone starts laughing at silly ones while still learning the concept.

I highly recommend the book “Connoisseur Kids: Etiquette, Manners, and Living Well for Parents and Their Little Ones.” I used this for a brief unit on etiquette at our co-op for the grade 2-3’s. It was a lot of fun as the book has great hands-on activities. I’d say the kids’ favourite class was when I gave them each an action that was the opposite of a different table manner I had taught them. Then they each ate their snack like that and had to watch each other to point out what they were doing incorrectly. And “the art of napkin folding” - we had fun practicing that as well. 😁

I love your sense of humor, your rambling and could listen to you talking for an hour straight or until my kids knock the bathroom door 😉

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut. Best line ever.

I hadn’t even thought about how technology impacted how/when we learn manners 🤯🤯🤯

It wouldn’t be an Angie video without switching from homeschool to kink and back again in the blink of an eye 😂

It's so awesome that you're doing this unit with your kids. It's definitely going to be beneficial!!! I'm sure everyone will have a great time, learn alot, and have fun too!!! Well done!!

I LOVE this so much!!! This right here is why I’m excited to homeschool. Stuff like this is practical and helpful. So so great. Can’t wait for the other video you mentioned coming

Honestly I am sooooo excited that you took out a video on this mini course for the kids. I homeschool and have two smaller babies ❤ and this helped sooooo much

You have so quickly become my very favorite KZfaqr. Thanks for all of the great info and all the laughs.

I love this unit theme!! I can see lots of fancy mock dinners and tea parties happening soon. I've been debating about starting the Simply Charlotte Mason program, "Laying Down the Rails" for some time now. Habit training is definitely different now days. I'd love to see updates from this unit you're doing with the family.

I would love to see updates of this! Sounds like something I need to do with my kids too!

I can’t wait to see this… I’m also from the south and this was just understood. I have a much smaller family than you, only 4 kids…my first was an only for 7 years… we have tried so many manners books over the years, I think there is a real change. We are in S.FL so I’m not sure how much is b/c of that vs something that has changed over the years or in the genes or water- but these kids just don’t get it like we did

Love this!! And love your rambling and truth. So fun!!

My mom did this when I was in school!!! I'm so glad she did! She even taught us how to set the table and which ways to pass the food or where to set the meat and who serves it up etc... please and thank you and your welcome were a part of our meals for a while, then they became a natural habit 🙂 she had us put our napkin in our lap for a week or so for practice and our elbows off the table and which forks and spoons to use at fancy dinners 😉 just so many different scenarios and ways to do thing so we would grow up mannerly and kosher and ackward in society!! She had books too 🙂 she talked to us about how we sit and carry ourselves and how we walk... with confidence and then went on to teach us how to protect ourselves in public, etc. But that's a different subject!! But I am so excited to start home schooling this fall!! ♡♡

I love your sense of humour! It’s so refreshing to hear raw honest jokiness on the internet 😎

I fully agree with all this! My daughter just recently went to an etiquette class. It was wonderful and I said I need one for the boys. But all your sports ball, sporting, cheer for sports balls, sportsing team are slaying me. 😂😂😂😂 Serious tears! I love it!

This is a great idea! Brooke Romney has a flipbook called something like 52 Manners for Teens. My young teens are experiencing some of the awkwardness of not really knowing what to say/do sometimes so I we’ve started that. I was listening to an analysis of Pride and Prejudice that said the book and really most of Jane Austen’s book were about the manners and etiquette of the day. That made sense of some of the interactions in Pride and Prejudice for me. Anyway, we’ve recently watched the movie and I’m looking for a simplified/abridged version to read or listen to before we read the full book. Wouldn’t a manners and etiquette unit alongside a Jane Austen unit be a great fit!?

Love this unit and book choices! Etiquette and consideration of others is so important! We are going through the Every Day Graces book and loving every bit of it.

I don’t have kids but I always enjoy your chatty videos while I’m getting stuff done. This is an excellent idea! I was homeschooled and my mom did a manner/etiquette book with us.

I’m so excited to see so many etiquette books I don’t already have! 🥰📚 Thank you for sharing, Angie!

You could also include some lessons on cultural differences surrounding good manners, to highlight the need to adapt to context 😊

My 10 yr old has the big Emily Post book and voluntarily read it over a year ago. It was very good for her. I need to get her to refresh on it again.

What a fun unit! Definitely going to check out the otters book 😂 My old youth group used to do formal dinners at a local burger joint, that would be so fun (dressing up and all that) 😂

My 6 and 3 year old love Richard Scary’s Please and Thank You Book. There are lots of silly examples of what to do and not to do- its very upbeat/ funny and relatable and doesn’t seem to talk down to younger kids.

Manners like these were something that I wished my parents would have taught me more of as a kid because it really doesn't come natural to me. Obviously, you have to kind of watch out for what is actually respect and kindness for others and what is sending the wrong message to kids. A dinner at the end sounds fun! Where I live, there are Knigge manners classes that end in a ball after ballroom dance lessons. I never had one, but it sounded very fun and like an opportunity to play adult for a bit.

We used Jessica Scott's Coinesseur Kids Manners book. Easy bite size chunks I had five students 7 - 18 at the time and it was a simple fit. Some practice assignments, and good reminders. We just added it to our basket time once a week.

I really think that teaching kids good manners and especially good tables manners is important because it will prevent them from being embarrassed when they need to have lunch with their boss or colleagues!

We have the Do Unto Otters! Very cute. My 6-year old son seriously needs a dinner table etiquette course. 😑

Love this idea for a unit!

Lovely Idea! I’ll certainly be gathering things to begin a similar unit study. Have you looked through the William Bennett books? A Book of Virtues and The Moral Compass?

Oh man we have been talking about this in our house recently too. I'm like I'm going to have to start doing etiquette tea parties or something. All ears for this conversation

Omg you cracked me up during this video. And I love the otter book. It sounds so cute. I just reserved it at our local library.

Thank you, thank you for this video. I am wondering if most young adults and kids even know the meaning of the word manners! I remember looking for a reference book when planning my daughter’s wedding years ago and someone said I should try to find one published during the Jackie Kennedy era as First Lady……which I did and also found a book called New Manners for New Times. This book probably needs updating to 2023. To me, manners are so very important to be a put together successful person. LOL

This is so cute and honestly really useful! One thing that I always get excited about internally is when people compliment my kids and how well behaved they are.

I'm so there with you. I feel my girls need a manners course.

Angela I was wondering if you have a PO box? My children's book was added to several homeschool curriculums (it's a Christian book) and I'd love to send you one for your kiddos ❤ I found your decluttering videos a few years back and just love your content!

I enjoyed this video so much! I will do that too!

Jane Yolen has a super cute series of manners and etiquette books with dinosaurs.

The Etiquette Factory has amazing materials!!

Laughed out louddd at 14:50 😂. We enjoyed connoisseur kids by Jennifer L Scott earlier this year

Omg monocle I lol-ed Also, I love to learn about etiquette and can’t wait to keep watching

Thanks for keeping the monocle kink bit in, I needed that laugh.

You are so funny. I love these types of videos

Everyday Graces by Karen Santorum....is an excellent book about manners and etiquette for children of all ages.

I live it! Sports ball and home sporting😂

Etiquette! What a good idea! I love your videos! Love from Ange in Australia. XOX

A Little Book of Manners by Emilie Barnes. It has great illustrations!

Lol my husband calls the kids fools lovingly too. 😅

😂😂😂😂 I love your sense of humor. Maybe that’s your kink😂🫣

Just subscribed! Great videos. Binge watching thank you. ❤❤ 📚 📖 📙

Would love the video of manners to bring back ❤

My kids need this horribly. I’m buying some of these books.

It’s a spoon not a shovel! Has been a favorite of ours.

Nice job Angela

I think you would love 52 Manners for todays modern teens by Brooke Romney!!

In the 7th grade home ec manners segment, my assignment was to illustrate how to get into a car (front or back seat) modestly while wearing a skirt. Also, I double-dog dare you to eat asparagus with your fingers while in the presence of your mama. Book or no book, I predict a serious talking-to.

Manners are about respecting yourself and others. No one should be offended about a person with manners. I heard a lady talk about this subject at a homeschool convention. Her name was Monica Irvine from The Etiquette Factory. It's been a while, but at the time, it was great information.

"How did we get here?"😂😂😂 Hands down....exactly why I want to be you when I grow up

Can you give an update on these resources? Im looking to do a unit on manners this year and would like to use just one book as my source material for the most part. Thanks!

Any suggestions on books to teach littles to get along? My 5yo and 4yo are constantly butting heads. I’m not sure how to teach them to get along. It’s quite exhausting.

I love what you said about books in your home; critical thinking skills are important to foster and if you only allow materials that completely align with your values, how do you teach kids how to think through the things that don't? So, so important. We discuss movies, music, books... Learn to disagree and discuss respectfully; skills which are so lacking today

I love this!! I'm actively trying to teach these to my littles... Making my 3yo say "excuse me sir/ma'am, may I please pay your dog?" Is my little start

My husband does the same thing watching sports. He scares all of us when he's watching tv nicely then he yells at the football game on the tv when it doesn't go the way it should. I'm so excited to find out what is on your long lost manners list on your phone.

Gosh, can we please be friends? 😆 I also have 8 kids, and we always say that we just bring the party with us wherever we go! Who needs a birthday party with that around every day? (But yes, they are sometimes also unmannered hooligans.😬)

No Stress Chess game will teach you how to play chess in a very short time. It’s how my family, including our 6 yo learned. It really works!

I think this is great and a very real lifetime skill. Knowing what's appropriate and when and being able to tell the difference. Some career choices would use these skills even more so. Having the knowledge and know how is wonderful. And embarrassing if you don't have it when you need it. Plus kids and teens are gross. 😄

That's your kink! lmao! Edict for husbands would be nice. lol "we are raising a nation of squibs "- Lucky's dad. ( i watch to much bluey! lol)

My kids have been mean/ rude lately, and I think talking abt manners is a great idea & will be looking into our library’s collections. Ps my almost 18 Yr old son (how is he that old?!) overheard this video as I was watching and he got a kick out of “my husband’s sporting teams not sporting as well as they should” and thought the writer of the book about discreetly making out in public must be an interesting person. (I think my son got a kick out of listening this video)

The thumbnail 😂

I was just talking to my husband about this.

I don't mind the cheering and jeering during a game, even in the home, as long as if you lose, you don't overly pout or claim the other team or refs cheated. Win well. Lose well.

I haven't watched the vide yet , but that thumbnail! 😅

Hello👍

🧐 Monocles! Haha

Please film a lesson 🙏🏻

Dude seriously my kids can’t even hold the phone to their ear properly though we’ve actually discussed it.

My dad let my youngest sister win every time he played a game with her. She is over 40 and still is a poor looser. I noticed my sister in laws husband also is a poor looser. It’s no fun to play with them. Then my other sister made a joke out of trying to loose and that wasn’t fun either.

I have a question. No one in my family understands the importance of learning and maintaining manners and etiquette. It bothers me that I can't explain why it is important to yourself and others around you. Nothing I say is enough to show them why they need to learn this. What can I say to bring them over to the knowledge that these habits are important?

How to treat people. Stop taking it out on walmart employees, they dont get paid enough or make the rules of the store. (All business, thats just an example)

Love that you're doing this! There are so many lost skills in today's society. 🩵