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Etiquette experts say the best way to get children to exercise good table manners during the holiday season is to practice them at home. Says Carol Wallace, author of Elbows Off the Table, Napkin in the Lap, No Video Games During Dinner: "Table manners are just skills, and parents should start teaching their children when they're really young--knowing that it's not always going to be pretty." Children as young as four can learn how to set the table and pick up the basic elements of cutlery. Kids should be expected to sit fairly still in a chair...
...they don't like. Parents who coach their kids ahead of time will be spared the temptation to correct them in front of others. Children should be prompted to excuse themselves politely from the table when they are finished, asking first their parents and then their host. The surest way to inoculate children against memorable faux pas is to let them demonstrate simple graciousness. Many a transgression has been quickly forgotten when a child sincerely thanks the host after the meal--with a handshake...
Like a lot of folks, I hadn't been giving a NASDAQ recovery much thought. But I am now, and here's the way...
...market leader. Institutions are getting to that point. That's why every tech rally gets squashed. The big boys are selling into strength to lighten up without going belly up. Before tech can sustain a rally, it must move to being under-owned, then start back the other way...
Another character, called "you," is on a quest to reach Lingshan, "ling meaning spirit or soul, and shan meaning mountain." He, "you" is told, will find this place at "the source of the You River." Along the way, he meets a woman, called "she," who morphs throughout the book into many different women, sometimes married, sometimes not, who have in common a pronounced tendency to whine: "She says she never wants to grow up and yet she also wants to grow up. She wants to be loved, wants everyone to look at her, but she's afraid...