Customer Reviews
A wonderful handbook for any parent! 
2008-06-27
This jewel has everything in it on manners and is easy to read with any child. While some may find things a bit old fashioned, good manners are never out of style! Any adult reading this along with a child will take note to address some missing manners in their own world. It is wise to remember that manners are such an asset to any child since we prepare them for most everything else in life! This book makes suggested good manners seem less like mom or dad preaching and more the way of our world. Ann Clarke, author of People Are So Different! based on tolerance and understanding of others.
365 Manners Kids Should Know 
2008-06-02
This is a fantastic book for teaching kids manners AND for helping them through tricky situations they may encounter.
I stumbled across this book in the local library and had to buy it because it was packed with information. The kids enjoy the activities and learning 'new' manners.
A must have!
Great Ideas 2007-11-21
Great book, easy to follow format. There are plenty of good ideas to incorporate into every day situations and conversations with your children.
Practical and Helpful 
2007-07-26
This book was practical and specific and covered many topics that parents may fail to address, but need to be reminded of for instilling manners in their chldren.
Excellent Comprehensive Guide 2007-05-24
365 Manners Kids Should Know is the best comprehensive guide to children's manners I've found. The calendar entries are arranged under 23 sections, among them "Getting Along With Other Kids," "Table Manners Made Easy," and "Be a Guest and Host." This is a parent's book, meant to be used as a teaching guide, perhaps read to the child one entry per day, though I think it would be more useful to focus on certain sections when approaching an event: "Gifts--Giving and Getting" when attending or hosting a party; "Vacation Time" before taking off somewhere. Practical activities are sprinkled throughout the text, such as helping your child read the movie page in the newspaper, or making a card to celebrate a friend's religious holiday. The tone is cordial but businesslike, with none of the false gaiety so common to books on children's manners. What's more, I found entries I haven't found in other books such as acknowledging another's presence when s/he enters the room; giving compliments; and positive use of humor. The writer runs her own company presenting manners instruction seminars to children, young adults, and businesspeople. Her instructions show empathy for all parties involved, for the "others" with whom the child will be associating, and for the child himself.
Awsome book! 2007-04-27
Have you ever cringed at the sight of your four-year-old waltzing through the neighbor’s front door without an invitation? Have you ever had to call to apologize when your six-year-old forgot to thank his grandmother for the birthday gift she so lovingly sent? How about the formal dinner for Dad’s promotion when your ten-year-old decided that she didn’t like the meal she’d ordered, and then refused to eat a thing—making for an uncomfortable evening for you, the other guests, and the waiter? As a parent, you’ve probably experienced these and many more instances when it seemed that your children had forgotten their manners completely, leaving you frazzled and embarrassed.
Sheryl Eberly’s
365 Manners Kids Should Know gives clever and insightful advice for the myriad of situations where consideration counts, but is sometimes forgotten. Using her smart one-manner-a-day format, parents, grandparents, and even aunts and uncles can find practical ways to teach basic manners, such as:
* How to address elders when being introduced
* How to write a thank-you note
* The polite way to answer the telephone
* How to accept and decline an invitation
* What is expected at formal occasions such as weddings, funerals, and religious services
Full of role-playing exercises, games, and other activities that parents can do with their children,
365 Manners Kids Should Know helps parents and other caregivers understand not only what manners to teach, but also how—and at what ages—to present them. Most important,
365 Manners Kids Should Know makes learning manners fun.
Can be useful 2007-04-25
First the positive. This book has a lot of ideas about manners, teaching manners. There is enough in this book to fill up a years worth of lessons (obviously).
The problems with this book is that many of the manners are broken down into tiny tiny parts and these parts are spread through out the book. For example, it might teach you how to address men (Mr.) one day and then a week later teach you how to address women who are married (Mrs.)
This gives it a feeling of being disorganized because each part of a manner is broken down and it is spread through out the book, rather than being in one place.
If you are considering buying this book I'd suggest this is one you want to look at and see if it provides what you want in a manner you can use.
The children and I refer to this book but for the most part it sits on the shelf unusued.
Disorganized 
2007-01-09
I bought this book on a recommendation and was disappointed. Most of the content is decent, but it is poorly laid out and not user friendly.
Save your Money and Go to the Library 2007-01-09
Not worth the money. I heard about this book through a review and thought it would be great. I should have went to a book store and looked at it before I bought it. Most of it is common sense, so it wasn't any help.
belongs on every parents bookshelf 2006-12-29
I like this book mostly because it is 365 days of tips, without dates. You can pull it out any time. I like to bring it out when dinner is over because that's when all the days activities have already been discussed. Then we reference something relative to something that day. It's a good book for all ages. Some are so short & common sense that you'll read several in one day. In any case, the fact that they are so short is another reason this book really works- you can get to them all eventually, and repeat again.
RECOMMENDED FOR ALL FAMILIES
