TABLE MANNERS (18/09/2021)

“Manner are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”

Manners are important in society. They help us to be civil to one another. If you remember your parents raging against elbows on the table when you were a kid, you’re not alone. While these memories may now seem old-fashioned, having good manners will never go out of style. Every meal should serve as an opportunity for your kids to practice proper etiquette, that means you are giving them important tools for social interaction that will serve them for the rest of their lives. With this aim our school DPS-JC organized an activity ‘Table Manners’ for classes Nursery to Class 1 to nurture the students with essential life skills alongside knowledge dissemination. In this activity all the students of Pre-Primary classes of DPS-JC and KIDS, participated wholeheartedly.

DPS-JC believes that the development of kids can be considered complete only and only if it happens equally in all aspects. A child that excels in academics but fails to possess even the basic life skills cannot be said to have developed holistically. So it becomes the prime responsibility of the parents as well as the teacher and the school alike to help shape a child’s character and his or her personality. Our Pre-Primary class teachers taught the basic table manners to the kids, which included cleaning face and hands, placing napkins on their lap before eating, not to play with food etc. Learning good manners is something he/she will practice over the course of time, and so make sure to teach the basic skills and let him/her improve on them.

Good manners at the table and elsewhere will certainly make your child become confident in handling social situations when he/she gets other. Children learn best by mimicking. So be the best example of your child because good table manners and etiquettes never go out of style.