Etiquette Matters for Youth & Adults, Inc.
The Etiquette Matters for Youth & Adults program was started in 2006 by Denise Minor. The program’s goal is to teach and empower young people by highlighting the importance of developing essential skills, including social skills, positive decision-making, and self-awareness. With these skills, they will be able to:
- Learn to exercise better manners to others and to themselves.
- Learn how important it is to respect other people.
- Help youth to learn better academic skills.
- Help youth to socialize better with kids in and outside of school.
- The importance of graduating from high school.
- Attending college or getting into a job training program.
- Becoming a productive citizen in the community
Social skills encompass various abilities that enable effective interaction and communication with others. These skills help youth demonstrate respect, cooperation, politeness, and courtesy, as well as listening, patience, adherence to directions, helpfulness, focus, and friendship.
10 Commandments of Etiquette
- You should always speak to people. There is nothing so nice as a cheerful word of greeting.
- Smile at people. It takes 72 muscles to frown, only 14 to smile.
- Call people by name. The nicest thing to hear is the sound of your own name.
- Be friendly and helpful. If you want friends, you must be one.
- Be nice. Speak and act as if everything you do is a joy to you.
- Try to get along with people. You can like almost everybody if you try.
- Try to say nice things to people and be careful with criticism.
- Be considerate with other peoples’ feelings. There are 3 sides to every story, yours, the person’s, and the right story.
- Be eager to help people. What counts most in life is what we do for others.
- Add to this a good sense of humor, patience, and kindness, and all doors will open with many blessings to you.
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