Mind Your Manners
An Etiquette Guide for Youth and Young Adults
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This book
was written especially for youth and young adults who need some suggestions
about what to do when they face uncomfortable situations at home, school, in
public, and in the workplace. It is
also a response to questions asked of me as a mother, former public school
teacher and administrator, and as a volunteer for several community
organizations.
CHAPTER III
GOOD MANNERS AT SCHOOL
How to Get Along at School
Many of
your waking hours are spent at school.
Try to make life there as smooth as possible. Getting along at school involves both your classroom work and
relationships with the staff and other students. To get along successfully at school, practice good manners.
CHAPTER VII
HOW TO BEHAVE IN PUBLIC
Etiquette
touches every part of life. It is
practiced at home, in school, on the job, and in social relation. For some situations there are special sets
of rules. But there are many general
tips that will be used in many places, many times, all your life. It is important to learn how to behave in
public as soon as you can!
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About the Book
Dr. Edwardlene Willis, management consultant for
adult education and social service programs and author, has a breakthrough
“cure” for “bad manners”. Mind Your Manners An Etiquette Guide for
Youth and Young Adults, the “cure”, is a book that offers helpful hints and
guidelines to regulate a myriad of social and behavioral blunders. It also defines manners, shows proper home
behavior, provides a guide to appropriate school decorum, outlines various
party strategies, teaches general entertainment procedures, lists travel tips,
and includes other significant etiquette issues such as dating, getting along
with a gang, public behavior and suitable business protocol. This guide can help one improve his or her
personal and social relationships.
Mind Your
Manners-- is
the result of the author’s research conducted with youth and adults, as well as
personal observations and experiences as a parent, teacher and administrator,
and her work with community groups. Several colleges, universities, and school
districts have adopted Mind Your Manners
as supplementary instructional material.
Bookstores, libraries, churches, and other community organizations have
also acquired this unique handbook.
Dr. Willis is available for interviews to administer
her pain-free social prescription to your audience. She also welcomes book reviews for Mind Your Manners. She has
appeared on national television and syndicated radio talk/interview programs,
including “Weeknight on PBS”.
About the Author
Edwardlene Fleeks Willis is a consultant for social
service organizations and educational institutions. Her career in education has included teaching high school
mathematics, English, and business in Texas, Maryland, and Ohio, as well as
serving as a school administrator.
Recognition of the need for a handbook on etiquette and decorum for
young people arises from these
experiences as well as her early training at home and at Girls High School (San
Francisco, CA).
Dr. Willis resides in Crockett, Texas where she
continues to write and manage Fleeks Farm, registered in the Texas
Family Heritage Land Program. This
prestigious program honors farms and ranches, which have had continuous
agricultural production for over 100 years in the same family. She is the widow of Dr. George M. Willis, a
research scientist, and has two sons and two granddaughters.
The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance
and encouragement of Josephine Morris, Clifford Pollard, Ph.D., Christine
Martin, and her son Mirron E. Willis.