When you are travelling around the world it is always a good idea to do a little resarch about the etiquette of a country before you arrive. Etiquette varies widely from culture to culture. What may be perfectly normal in one country can sometimes be completely...
The annual festivities for the Chinese New Year in London are the biggest globally outside of China and 2015 will be no different. The main celebrations begin at 10am on Sunday 22 February on the north side of Trafalgar Square where the parade commences. Between 12...
According to a survey conducted in the East Midlands by the British Heart Foundation children pester their parents to buy junk food. This apparently applies to more than 50 percent of 2000 parents who participated. The study was conducted prior to Heart Month in...
All children love to be invited to a birthday party no matter how young or old they may be. However, for the parent who is staging the event, it can be highly stressful not because of the perception of badly behaved, rowdy children but actually because of their...
Recently, in the news I saw that an American couple from Utah had been struggling for months with their children’s misbehaviour. They felt their children showed a lack of respect and they were ungrateful with an attitude of entitlement. Having warned the...
Many people might have noticed this weekend that Tesco have decided to place newspapers out of the eye line of small children so that only the front page headlines can be seen. This has apparently come about due to pressure from the “No More Page 3” and...
Earlier this year the chairman of the Independent Schools Association, Richard Walden, said that “too many amoral children” were being turned out by State schools. His view was based on a belief that teachers are so focused on results that they have...
Technology is a wonderful thing and no one can doubt that we are in an age where communication has never been better. We have the internet, email, text messaging, iPhones, iPads, iPods and laptops with new stuff coming out almost every month. However, watching...
The renowned children’s charity Barnardo’s stated recently that problems at home or special needs may be the cause of unruly, bad behaviour of children at school. The charity believes that schools are not doing enough to address the root cause of such...
There are certain standards of behaviour for children deemed appropriate for practically every aspect of their lives but there is one form of etiquette that few adults know, let alone children. This came to light recently amid claims in Scotland that tourists had been...
