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When we teach our children, the basic manners of saying thank you, sorry, please or wishing the elders or any other etiquette, we should remember that table manners also form a big part of our basic etiquette. Children need to be well versed with the table manners that they are supposed to follow, whether at home or in public.
Essentially, if a family stresses on manners and a child grows up seeing things happening in a definite way, it gets inculcated in him naturally. However, if you have a casual lifestyle, you need to consciously imbibe some good habits so that your child picks them up gradually.
Table manners should be taught to a child when he is close to 3 years. Short phrases like ‘please’ or ‘thank you’ should be a part of your child’s growing up. Make your child sit on the chair patiently, and discourage wriggling. Teach him to us the napkin, and chew with his mouth closed. Tell him that words like “eeww’, yuck are not to be used at the table.
Now that the child knows the basics, teach him how to effectively use the fork and the spoon. Kids this age now understand how their actions can affect someone, so you must emphasize on being polite and soft, even if they do not happen to like the food laid on the table. Since by this age a child will have developed his own taste and preferences, teach him how to dispose off the food he doesn’t want to eat.
Your child is probably flying solo at this age, he would be visiting his friends and would also be visited. This is the age when you should teach your child about being both a good host and a good guest. He should be taught to offer and serve the guests first before himself. Make sure he chats with everyone on the table, and strictly ensure that he doesn’t bury his head into a cell phone or video-game.
Here are the basic things that your child should know, when he sits down to eat with others-
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