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First dates can be very important, and you will want to be on your best behaviour in order to impress your date. One of the most important things to do is to be yourself, and avoid acting the way you think your date wants you to be. Your date more than likely likes you for who you were when you first met, so there is no need to change now. (more…)

Proper dress varies with the hour and season, but your wedding party will look most striking if they have a uniform appearance. This used to mean that the bride chose one dress for all of her attendants to wear, regardless of body types or tastes.

Tips for Bridesmaids and honor attendants dresses:

Keeping the style and formality of your wedding gown in mind, look for ideas in bridal magazines, in stores and bridal salons, and on the internet.
Shop with honor attendant; choose her dress first.
Narrow the choices for the bridesmaids’ dresses to three styles. Or select a special fabric and color by a particular manufacturer and let bridesmaids pick their own styles. Another option: choose a design that includes many coordinated pieces that can be mixed and matched to flatter attendants of various shapes and sizes.
Let bridesmaids make the final decision since they are, most likely, buying their own dresses.

Today it is increasingly popular to let bridesmaids take a more active role in choosing their dresses, with certain parameters set by the bride, example, choosing a specific fabric or designer, then letting them choose the style of dress. Not only does this allow for some individuality, but it can also improve the chances that your bridesmaids will like and wear their dresses again.

If you don’t want all bridesmaids to dress alike, ask each to select her own style of dress in the same color family. To accommodate their various heights and weights, consider choosing dresses that are similar but not identical in style, a sleeveless dress for the friends with toned arms; one with sleeves for those who prefer to be covered up. The dresses should be in the same fabric and color, and from the same manufacturer.

Teaching social manners to children is not easy. It is also cannot be done overnight. Social manners in children, especially the very young ones, are admirable virtues. Respectfulness in youngsters almost always reflects good family background. Parents should start teaching the basic social etiquette to their children at a young age.

Here are some suggestions on how to mold the children with right conduct:

1. Parents should be the role models. Children are natural imitators. They always try to emulate what the adults around them do and say.

2. Respect should be earned. Treat your children with respect, so that they will respect you, too.

3. As early as 3 to 4 years old, children should be taught not to interrupt conversations by adult.

4. Tell your children to address the adults with the right title, not by first names. Otherwise, children would start looking at all adults as their playmates, who can be treated casually.

5. Do not let the children throw tantrums whenever and wherever they want. If they were asking for something prohibited, do not give in when they start losing their temper, especially in public.

6. Scold your children in private so that they will retain their self-respect even when they’re being dressed down for showing bad manners, or throwing a noisy tantrum.

7. Parents should be tireless and patient on teaching children. They should be repetitive so that the basic rules of social etiquette are imprinted on the minds and hearts of their children, especially when they are having constant interaction with playmates that do not have nice manners.

8. Praise every good deed to give inspiration. Children are always eager to please their parents.

You must teach different skills one at a time. When it is time for the children to go to parties, they should be taught some table manners so that they will know how to eat properly in front of other people.

Before you allow the children to answer the telephone, they must know how to speak respectfully and must learn the right words to say or ask. Do not forget to teach them how to jot down the messages on a notebook beside the telephone. This task is for the older children.