mrs manners

Photo by LelandsMommy

Ever think about where your manners came from and how your parents got them to stick? Well, it's an important experience to recall as you teach and model important manners for your children.

Today MrsManners talks about ways we can apply a foundation of good manners even when every era of parenting brings a whole new set of lessons to uncover.

Photo by Momof3cuties

If you want all those hard-fought manners and family rules to stick with your child, then you have to stick to your guns when you're enforcing them. And that's not always easy.

Today MrsManners gives us some encouragement for holding firm to our rules and expectations, especially when it matters most.

Photo by 3lilmonsters411

Toddlers often lack gracious gift receiving etiquette: saying aloud that they dislike gifts, tossing clothing gifts to the side, or refusing to say "thank you."

Today MrsManners gives us some tips and guidance for teaching and encouraging appropriate responses to presents received from family and friends.

Photo by Beanz

With holiday parties, dinners, and gatherings popping up all over the place this month, you may be looking at your enthusiastic little one and thinking There is NO way.

Today MrsManners gives us some great tips for turning our toddlers into better house guests.

Photo by Yui

Today we're talking table manners with MrsManners — since good manners (or bad ones) will surely reveal themselves at the upcoming holiday meals.

Photo by thomasfam14

The toddler years are the perfect age to start teaching your kids manners and good habits.

CafeMom MrsManners aka: Angela Pitre, owner of the CM group Manners for the Modern Family and MannersMadeFun.com, is here to help.

Dear MrsManners:

My daughter is in daycare and has started biting other children. What should I do? I'm concerned that my daughter will be thrown out of the daycare.. -- Anonymous

Photo from LadyFelicity

It can be hard to understand the toddler mind sometimes. However, this is also the age when we can teach our kids good manners and good habits that will stay will them as they grow.

MrsManners, aka: Angela Pitre, owner of the CM group Manners for the Modern Family and MannersMadeFun.com, is back with us in Toddler Buzz and ready to answer your questions!

We need your toddler questions for Mrs. Manners!

Leave your question in the comments below or, if you'd rather ask anonymously, PM Cafe Sheri your question, and Mrs. Manners will answer it in a future column.

Photo by ladylittlerose

Dear MrsManners:

How in the world do I teach my son that the things my grown up, 31 year old brother does in front of him -- name calling, hitting, etc. -- are wrong. Keeping him away from my brother is not an option. -- JasonsMom2007

Photo by Momof3cuties

Dear MrsManners:

My toddler ignores others when she's engrossed in something. Very rude. We always make her stop her activity to say bye to someone, hi, or just to listen to us. She still is not in the habit of listening to us in this way. Sometimes we have to remove her from whatever her attention is on (often the TV) so that she will pay attention. Even some adults I know ignore people when they're engrossed in TV. What's the best way to break a toddler of this habit? And no, we probably won't stop letting her watch television, LOL! -- mommy2028

Photo by sstepph

The toddler years are the perfect age to start teaching your kids manners and good habits. And MrsManners aka: Angela Pitre, owner of the CM group Manners for the Modern Family and FamilyMannersMadeFun.com, is here to help.

Dear MrsManners:

I'd love to know how to deal with manners situations involving other people's children. I have several friends who interact with their children very differently from the way I do with mine, and I always wonder where to draw the line (especially when I'm alone with their children!). -- tyheamma

MrsManners says:

We all have our own unique way of parenting. It is what makes society so fascinating. If we all did everything the same way, we'd be pumping out the same kids everywhere, right?