When children are little, those spaghetti-stained faces, greedy grabs for the crackers, and startling mid-meal burps are adorable. By age 5, not so much. At 15? It’s sloppy behavior to be banned — stat! Enter educational and etiquette consultant Rachel Isgar.
Isgar’s El Segundo, California-based company, Please Pass the Manners, teaches children ages 5 to 18, as well as adults, how to be respectful and handle themselves in any social situation. But the grace guru tells Yahoo Parenting that moms and dads can create polite little people at home just as well with one simple trick: relentless reminders.


