Teaching manners to your kids
From burping in public to not shaking hands, kids and good manners aren't always a natural fit. With every nose pick it may seem like a losing battle, but there are ways to turn your little monsters into civilized human beings. Here are three no-fail suggestions from the manners gurus. 4 year old tantrums at bedtime http://www.parentingyourkid.com/tips-to-handling-4-year-old-bedtime-tantrums Good: Tell Stories You can't really preach manners. Kids will only hear, "Blah, blah, blah." Instead, pepper your teaching with cool (and kind of weird) trivia about manners, suggests Peggy Post, a director of the Emily Post Institute and the author of more than a dozen books about etiquette. The stories will stick with them and help them remember to do what you're advising. Let's say you want your kids to make eye contact and firmly shake hands when they meet people. But why do we shake hands? "You put out your hand to show you're not holding a weapon -- or