Manners

Friday Reads: Pay It and Play It Forward
I’ve found a couple little nuggets for you to enjoy when you find a few minutes to yourself this weekend. From teaching your kids math with art to why doing good things for other people makes us feel so crazy awesome to some cocktail recipes that make everything taste and

Manners Monday: Sit up Straight
Hunching and munching isn’t cool. Hunching, ever, is unattractive, impolite and even unhealthy. Yup, slouching can cause reduced lung function and permanent shoulder and back damage and painful digestive issues. See this article about the health implications of poor posture from Livestrong.com for details on that. We’re here to talk

Manners Monday: Excuse Me?
Excuse me. It’s a phrase that seems to be said more and more often as something rude, rather than something polite. We’ve all heard people of every age group say, “Excuse me?!”as a nasty retort that instantly makes you cringe. But! This week, we’re changing all of that. Excuse me is

Manners Monday: Eye Contact
It’s time to start the week with another Manners Monday post. This week, we’re working on looking into people’s eyes. It’s a common courtesy to make eye contact when we’re talking. It makes people feel like they matter and their words matter. And, it makes us feel that way when people look

Manners Monday: Say Yes, Not Yeah
This week we’re working on saying yes instead of yeah. And by “we” I do mean “we”. All of us need to brush up on speaking like educated people who know that the real word is “yes” and that “yeah” is a sad, lazy and inappropriate way to affirm anything.