Etiquette Lessons
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**FOR IMMEDIATTE RELEASE** Friends, Editors and Book Sellers for review copies or interview requests, contact: Stella, Etiquette Lessons, telephone: 877-847-2748 Email: customerservice@etiquettelessons.com Behave! Etiquette Lessons for Adults Behave! is a fashionable, fun, interactive gift for the Holidays and the considerate adult's perfect guide for real, true New Year's Resolutions! About The Author Teresa Kathryn Grisinger Reilly, (T.K. Reilly) is an Art Historian and Instructional Systems Designer who lives in Florida on the Gulf of Mexico with her family. She has trained hundreds of etiquette instructors and thousands of students in table manners, social protocol and ballroom dance. Her first book, titled, Etiquette Lessons, for K-12 was published in 2004, Etiquette Lessons, Volume II, Advanced Lessons for Teens, was published in 2007 and Behave!, 2011, her third book of Etiquette Lessons, is for Adults. For more information, please visit: www.etiquettelessons.com Etiquette Lessons is a curriculum that started with "Girls and Boys at the Table" and "Teens at the Table" instructional training systems consisting of 45 minute lessons in table manners and social protocol. It started small in 2003 in pilot classroom lessons with local community organizations including: YMCA, Girl Scouts and Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the Royal Academy of Dance, Martial Arts Clubs, parish halls and Friends of the Libraries. By 2007 Etiquette Lessons grew to include beginning ballroom dance lessons and cotillion graduation ceremonies in many after-school programs in public, private and home schools and colleges and summer camps in country clubs. Nationwide demand for K - 12 classes in table manners and social skills soon necessitated online training for instructor certification. By this year's end, instructors trained to teach Etiquette Lessons programs for K - 12, number over 200 and each is has a small business in the etiquette industry. With the new release of Behave! Etiquette Lessons for Adults, instructors can expand their client base to include classes for parents and business executives to better serve communities. Behave! Etiquette Lessons for Adults By T. K. Reilly ISBN: 978-1-4620-6174-7 Good Etiquette—Know the Signs—Show the Signs “Comport yourself with dignity and grace.” “Aim to Please.” “Keep your Elbows off the Table.” “Play to the Strengths in Your Personality.” “Good Posture is a sign of Good Etiquette.” “The Handshake, the Curtsey, the Air-Kiss, the Hug and the Bow are signs of Good Etiquette.” “I’m rubber, you’re glue, your insults bounce off me and stick to you.” “Be Tactful.” “Make a Good First Impression.” “Proper Introductions are signs of Good Etiquette. “ “Remember titles and names.” “Labor to keep alive in your hearts that little celestial fire called conscience.” George Washington “Thank You notes and Sympathy Notes are signs of good etiquette.” “Actions speak louder than words.” “Personal, Hand-written Notes are Ties that Bind” “With speeches: Be brief and be seated.” “Don’t Talk with Food in Your Mouth.” “In ballroom dance, she starts with her right foot, he starts with his left.” “He leads a dance by sending silent signals with his right hand.” “Fix your gaze above the horizon and your countenance pleasant.” “One drink per hour takes will power.” “A Seven-Course Banquet includes Dishes from Soup to Nuts” “Out to Sea and Back to Me.” Behave! Etiquette Lessons for Adults, actually teaches etiquette. It is a self-help masterpiece. You’ll see results in twelve lessons delivered with activities including gait and dance frame work, knife and fork skills, business and formal wardrobe details, drinking directives, role playing, four focus quizzes, three writing assignments, poems, recitations, a drawing, a crossword puzzle and a three-act play for business executives. FORMAT: Soft cover: $11.95, E-Book: $3.99 published by iUniverse 11/01/11 iUniverse books may be ordered through Amazon and Barnes and Noble booksellers and at 1-800-Authors (1-800-288-4677)
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We are proud to present more Etiquette Lessons! Volume II, Modern Manners, gives instructors, coaches and educators a seamless continuation of "Girls & Boys at the Table" and "Teens at the Table" etiquette programs. This book contains fresh, new lessons that build upon essential basic lessons in table manners, social protocol and beginning ballroom dance. They are all designed to continue authentic social learning experiences throughout the school year. These lessons have been tested with great results in Fall, Winter and Spring Terms including exams with each lesson and a dinner/dance at the end of each term. All of the lessons come with detailed lesson plans to guide teachers. Students use rhymes, props, learning snacks, menus, dance, movement and scripts to learn appropriate behavior for young people in modern society.
Etiquette Lessons create social competence. They add social-awareness life skills to the elementary, middle school and high school experience. Etiquette Lessons give students life skills they need to become socially capable at each level of personal development. Polite social behavior taught in classes with groups of peers can improve student attitude and even lift academic achievement. By graduation, "Etiquette Lessons" students grow naturally more civil, enjoying more interaction with others. Etiquette students experience enhanced interest, appreciation and recognition from parents and teachers alike.
These lessons have a way of bringing out the positive aspects of children and youth. Each is designed to teach traditional etiquette combined with modern, appropriate, considerate behavior that becomes increasingly interactive as students adapt. Each lesson introduces new, scientific and historical information about customs and skills students welcome as familiar and having worth. They practice etiquette together while gaining command of the roles of ladies and gentlemen.
About the Author
Teresa Kathryn Grisinger Reilly has written the definitive collection of lessons i n table manners and social protocol for children ages five to nineteen.