Manners: 99 Tips to Bring You Back from the End of Your Rope

by Michelle Kennedy

Here are practical suggestions for instilling manners in pre-schoolers. Many child experts testify that parents can start teaching manners from eighteen months, and this book presents 99 tips the author has successfully used with her own kids to instill the basics of good behavior. Among the subjects covered are teaching children to share, dealing with outbursts of anger, and coping with fighting problems that escalate into hair-pulling, hitting, and using foul language.

Genres: Parenting

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2004

About the author

Michelle Kennedy is the author of numerous books on parenting, the memoir "Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (With Kids) in America" published by Viking, the memoir "A Fine Mess: Living Simply With Children," and the novel, "Gandhi was a Libra."

Her articles and essays have been published in Salon.com, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Redbook, Family Circle, FamilyFun Magazine and many other publications. She has also read her work on National Public Radio.

Michelle is the mother of eight, grandmother of one, and in addition to being a writer of words, is also a lover of dogs, a gardener of weeds (and weed!), and a knitter of tangled things.

Please find her on Facebook or write to her at mushergrrl@gmail.com

Reviews

[Exina]

Advices on what to do when your child is not behaving. Most of them are evident, some of them are funny, and with some I personally don’t agree. Not exactly a useful book, but rather just a little fun.

[Susanna Cherian]

It’s more like a summary of different books with a bit of personal experiences thrown in. Most of the tips are useful, some are just common sense. I can see some of the tips being used in schools by teachers, especially with regards to polite words and sharing. All in all, it’s worth reading if you’re looking for some quick tips or shallow reading.

[Zainab Awami]

سهل القراءة ينتهي في جلسة واحدة يعطني فكرة عن السلوكيات الجيدة وافكار للحث عليه

[Roberta]

Ho letto in italiano: “Come sopravvivere... ai capricci”