The Family Dining Etiquette Tutorial

Table Manners

What does it mean to have good table manners?  Are you worried that manners are complicated?  Do you feel comfortable eating in the company people you know as well as strangers?  If so, why not? 

"The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling and  just about all other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet."
                            Judith Martin 

Dining Skills Class

What happens in a dining skills class?  We're not here to correct. your table manners or teach you numerous outdated rules.  We're here to give you hands-on practice when eating at home, or in a restaurant, or attending a fancy social event.  If you practice your manners at home, and all the time, then you won't be intimidated when you need your confidence the most.  

What You Will Learn

By the end of this class, you will know what to do, how to do it, and when to do it in a variety of dining scenarios.  
​Here's what you will Learn:

• How to arrive at the table and sit down
• Where to place your hands, elbows and wrists
  
• The Dining Do's and Don'ts
  
• Dining Styles - The Continental style of dining
  
• ​The skillful use of utensils
  
• The rules of host and guest
  
• ​Restaurant and buffet dining
  

The Family Dining Etiquette Tutorial  is geared towards the age and skill development of children and teenagers (not adults).  It implements the framework for showing parents and caregivers how to model good table manners for their children without becoming an enforcer or a critic.  The course delivers a straightforward, pragmatic approach to mastering the mechanics of utensil use and understanding the logic of table manners.