Tuesday, 01 March 2011
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If Everybody Did
The Manners of Women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a Republican Government is practicable in a Nation or not,
and that
Mothers are the earliest and most important instructors of Youth,
President John Adams may very well have approved of this modern-day preschool etiquette book.
It came to mind as I am reading Anthony Esolen's Ten Ways to Destroy The Imagination of Your Child, as we book clubbers have reached the chapters addressing decorum (modesty and manners).
JoAnn Stover lays some foundational thinking when it comes to living within the family and then society with her everyday opportunities to exhibit manners.
So, for fun, how about a poll?
What etiquette books (reference or picture book) are in your home library?
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If Everybody Did
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Comments (3)
Emily Post's blue book of social usage -- the 1950s version, which was my mother-in-law's. She gave it to me early in our marriage, and I love it.
Emilie Barnes' childrens books on manners, Courtesy and Kindness for Young Ladies, and A Game Plan for Getting Along with Others, for boys.
Protocol Matters, by Sandra Boswell.
Maxims of Washington, which includes a long section on friendship, courtesy, domestic life, and so forth.
The Dangerous Book for Boys has a section on manners.
I haven't seen it in a while (it's probably packed) but we have a book from the late 1800s on gentlemanly behavior, and I used to have one that was a compilation of rules of civility over the last thousand years or so -- very interesting.
I seem to remember getting various manners books from the library when the oldest were little, but I don't remember any titles. In recent years, it's been more a matter of keeping out books and movies that glorify bad manners.
@BadgerMum - thanks for playing along, Kelly. I have both Post and Vanderbilt Etiquettes, both from 1975 and hope to acquire my mother's from the fifties. It's also entertaining to see the manners (or lack thereof) in folk/fairy tales, like The Three Bears. Goldilocks really wasnt very polite, was she?
Etiquette - Emily Post
Emily Post's Complete Book of Wedding Etiquette - Elizabeth Post
Miss Manners on Painfully Proper Weddings - Judith Martin
Pooh's Little Etiquette Book - inspired by A.A. Milne
A Little Book of Manners - Emilie Barnes
Stand Up, Shake Hands, Say "How Do You Do" - Marjabelle Young Stewart