Monday, November 14, 2022

Good Manners Class Gives Me Hope

 


I am so impressed with the etiquette classes I am reading about on the TJM Community Center Facebook page. At the six weeks of instruction in Cluster Springs, kids are taught to respect boundaries and to treat each other with respect.

 

The goal one day: “At the end of this seminar, I will be able to understand what dating etiquette is and how I can use this in my daily life.”

 

The class taught kids to “identify good character in an individual being considered to date.”

 

The session also explained how to eat at a five-star restaurant using a table place setting and how to tie a tie.

 

Another class taught social media etiquette. The youth were also instructed on how to introduce themselves to someone with eye contact and a firm handshake. Other topics included self-grooming,

 

These are the kinds of things they don’t teach in school. I can think of a lot of adults who could use this instruction!

 

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You are following a historic route if you ride or walk on our Tobacco heritage Trail. The Richmond and Danville Railroad was the last link from Richmond to the rest of the Confederacy not captured by the Union. The trail is built on the right of way, where the tracks were removed. When Richmond fell in 1865, President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet fled by train via the route to Danville, where they established the last capital of the Confederacy for eight days.  

 

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What’s this? Our grandchildren pooled their candy into one bowl to share with the family? When I was a kid, we insisted on keeping it all for ourselves. But when my daughter went trick or treating, we would take part of her stash and give it out to latecomers at our door.

 

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Horror movies were all the rage at Halloween. I can’t watch them anymore. If I want an adrenalin rush, how about: A huge bill from the IRS. A lab test showing some horrifying disease. Smoke coming from front burners left heating on the stove too long. Who needs a scary movie?

 

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