Mind your manners: etiquette classes for kids
Photography: Tom Leighton
As Debrett’s launches etiquette classes for children, Kate Freud puts it to the test with her five-year-old son, Jago
Though the joys of parenthood far outweigh the tricky bits, there?s no doubt raising children is a minefield. Once you?re safely through the nappy years, it?s on to the daily tussle of getting them dressed and out the house, doing their homework, eating their greens and going to bed on time, all the while trying to shape them into well-rounded, polite human beings. I spend a staggering amount of my life trying to teach my children not to use potty humour, pick their noses or forget their manners. I often hear myself and inwardly cringe with the incessant, ?what?s the magic word"?
Clearly not the only one feeling the pressure, I?m interested to learn that Debrett?s ? the inimitable authority on social skills and etiquette since it was founded in 1769 ? has launched a Cygnet school to help children ?develop confidence and ensure social ease, charm and grace.? I book straight in. A lady called Catherine arrives on a Tuesday afternoon to work her magic on Jago and his friend Monty. Apparently children respond better when there?s another child present, but after a long day cooped up in the classroom, the boys seem more excitable than usual and I?m nervous for poor Catherine.
She explains the classes are ?fun, play-led sessions to help them start to gain social awareness, improve empathy and build self-confidence.? Catherine be...
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