Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/New-Manners-Books-.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/15/2001 Some New Books About Manners Transcript Out of polite respect for National Etiquette Week, we thought wed let you know about some new books dealing with proper conduct for young people. In Harriet Ziefert’s recent picture book, Someday Well Have Very Good Manners, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Good-Manners-Month.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 9/13/2000 Good Manners Month Transcript September is Children’s Good Manners Month, and Rita Smith has a most polite rediscovery for us: September is Children’s Good Manners Month. I suppose that to children it seems like every month is Good Manners Month, considering how they […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Etiquette-Week.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/10/2000 Etiquette Week Transcript This is National Etiquette Week, and to a child, there is almost nothing more boring than learning etiquette. It can be dangerous, too. Quentin Crisp, a British author wrote that “nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into […]
Here’s Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children’s Literature, to discuss historical manners instruction for children.