Spring Session starts Friday April 13th. Good social skills open doors. Let’s prepare our young people for the opportunities ahead. Soon they will be making decisions that will affect their future success. We can provide our young people with an advantage: a session in successfully navigating social situations. Give your child tools that will help her the rest of her life. If you would like instruction for your group (scouts, class, club or team), please contact us at
etiquetteadvantage@gmail.com and we will customize a program.
For Young People Grades 4 - 7
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Dates: April 13, 20, 27; May 4, 11, 18
Fee: $75.00 per person; 10 percent sibling discount
Workshop will cover
The ABC's of Table Manners - including eating in restaurants - Snack included
Common Courtesies - Holding doors, chairs; Etiquette in Public Places: Movie Theaters, Churches, Elevators, Escalators etc
How to be a great guest and a great host including sleepover etiquette
Effective use of social media
How to be a great conversationalist
Respect for self and others
Bring an Etiquette Advantage workshop to your school, home or office and see the difference. Or attend an Etiquette Advantage class.The participants leave after one class with knowlege that they can use forever and share with others.
What I hear, I forget
What I see, I remember
What I do, I understand
Confucius, 451 B.C.
Etiquette Past and Present by Dorothea Johnson
Etiquette used to mean "keep off the grass." When Louis XIV's gardener at Versailles discovered that the aristocrats were trampling through his gardens, he put up signs or etiquets, to warn them off. Dukes and duchesses walked right past the signs anyway. Finally, the king himself had to decree that no one was to go beyond the bounds of the "etiquets". The meaning of etiquette later was expanded to include the ticket to court functions that listed the rules on where to stand what to do. Like language, etiquette evolves, but in a sense it still means "keep off the grass." If we stay within the flexible bounds of etiquette, we will give relationships a chance to grow; we will give ourselves a chance to grow; and we will be able to present ourselves with confidence and authority in all areas of our professional and personal life.
Teaching good manners was considered part of a child's upbringing in the U.S.A. until the 60's. Public and private schools included etiquette as part of a well rounded curriculum and charm schools specialized in teaching the social graces, poise, and table manners. The liberated 60's and 70's brought about a decline in the popularity of etiquette programs. A renewed interest in the '80s, the return to traditional values in the '90s, and now the fierce competition in the business arena has simply made etiquette another tool to provide a competitive edge.
Protocol has been observed since the ancient Egyptians produced the first known book, The Instructions of Ptahhotep. Along with the plow and the twelve month calendar, they invented manners. It was about 2000 B.C. that the books was written in the hieratic script of priests. It is still preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and is known as the Prisse Papyrus (after the name of its donor to the library).
The term "protocol" is derived from two Greek words, protos meaning "the first" and kolla meaning "glue." Protocollum refers to the sheet of paper glued to the front of a notarial document giving it authenticity. Protocollum soon came to mean the process of drawing up official public documents, and eventually it meant the documents themselves. By the 19th century, the French term protocole diplomatique referred to the body of ceremonial rules to be observed in all written or personal official interactions between heads of different states or their ministers. Today, the word protocol serves as the code of international politeness that blends diplomatic form, ceremony and etiquette.
