In the past few months I have lost track of how many times I have been complimented on my girls’ manners. More often than not I find myself slightly surprised (weren’t they just acting like total monsters 5 minutes ago?), but it never fails to make me glad that I’m such a stickler on their etiquette.
Sadly, not all kids are being taught good manners as part of their daily lives and even basic social etiquette has lost a place in most television programming which is a major influence to their young minds. To ensure that my octogenarian grandparents continue to enjoy spending time with us, we have started learning more manners by playing Kingdom Kindness.
Kingdom Kindness is a board game designed to help little girls learn good manners. This is the solution that a Marvelously Well-Mannered family of women came up with when they couldn’t find any manners games for little girls. To learn just how qualified they were for this job I suggest checking out their grown-up site Marvelously Well-Mannered as well as the Kindness Kingdom “About Us” page.
As my girls followed the gemstone path through the various neighborhoods in the Kindness Kingdom they enjoyed finding out what manners they already knew and what new ones there were to learn. The game also gave me some great opportunities to expand on situations we had already encountered in the past where I had floundered with finding just the right words to best explain it to my young kids.
At first the directions for the game looked overwhelming, but before we were halfway through our first game we had mastered the rules. By that far into the first game I had also learned that Kindness Kingdom would easily be an age appropriate game for girls right up into the preteen years. I also learned that future games would need to be set up somewhere that we could leave and come back to resume playing as the game took a while longer than expected to play.
Kindness Kingdom is for 2-4 players and little princesses ages 5 and up. With this being said, the game did provide some alternate directions for including younger players and even 3-year-old Dani had fun playing!
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Allison
June 19, 2013 at 10:49 pmIt is very important for my child to chew with her mouth closed!
susan smoaks
June 19, 2013 at 8:38 pmi like to teach manners with lots of positive reinforcement, always praising good behavior
katy dutcher
June 19, 2013 at 4:46 pmlooks like a great game!!
Stephanie Grant
June 19, 2013 at 2:41 pmIf you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all
javaid iftikhar
June 19, 2013 at 1:40 pmwhat is the proper way to address some one who is way older than you?
Kat Emerick
June 19, 2013 at 1:06 pmI remember a time when we moved from Pa. to Louisiana and we met with some friends and their children and I sat in amazment when I ask the children ( age were 6-9) a question they responded with Yes mam no mam. I have never heard of a child saying this in Pa.
tina reynolds
June 19, 2013 at 10:14 amRight now my son has a habit of correcting people in stores and such that do not say excuse me or pardon me, thank you etc. He says it for them and the says always use your manners
DanV
June 19, 2013 at 10:02 amRight now we’re working on dinner table etiquette
michelle koerner
June 19, 2013 at 4:10 amMy kids have a problem with picking their nose… and eating it. I know a lot of kids do this, but they do it anywhere and everywhere. I remember one time when my oldest was about 3 she pulled this big booger out. I grabbed a napkin and wiped her finger off. “Mooooom! Hey!” “What?” “I was saving that for later!” Ewww. lol.
Fiona N
June 18, 2013 at 11:04 pmI would love to win this interesting game for my niece. Hew birthday is next month!
Thank You for the chance to enter
cassandra mccann
June 18, 2013 at 10:45 pmThis marvelous manners game encourages empathy, develops social skills and nurtures a kindness of spirit that will help each player lead a more enjoyable and thoughtful life.
Ed Nemmers
June 18, 2013 at 5:20 pmThe little one was looking for me throughout the house in order to introduce me to his new friend. He opened the bathroom door ( I was seated ) and said, “That’s my Dad!”
Shea Balentine
June 17, 2013 at 11:34 pmStill kind of have issues teaching the kids to put their left hand in their lap while eating… they wanna know why… and I don’t have an answer for em other than that’s just how it’s done and it’s proper 😛
Emmy
June 17, 2013 at 9:24 pmThe Gabs is 5 so all etiquette and tact has yet to be developed. Though she herself can be somewhat rude (Mommy! Your belly is so far!) she is quick to correct manners of younger children around her (Mommy! He’s not sharing!)
sharlene caisse
June 17, 2013 at 7:08 pmI love this game teaches manners. Kids will say just what is on their minds.
Christian Alejandro
June 17, 2013 at 5:12 pmWe all know not to have electronic devices at the dinner table. Once my brother was alarmed that my sister was texting. He snatched it, ran, and hid it. He came back proud that he saved the day and told her she could have it after dinner.
Colleen
June 17, 2013 at 4:42 pmMy daughter lately has had a bad habit of talking bad about people right in front of them. Not mean intentioned but more curious.
Crystal Lope
June 17, 2013 at 1:20 pmWe are working on showing signs of respect for others with ways we talk to people. My boys are very well mannered but they are definitely boys! 🙂
Tamar
June 17, 2013 at 11:51 amMy kids: why do you waste your food?!
shannon Baas
June 17, 2013 at 11:37 amWhen they insist other people say please and thank you.
carla g
June 16, 2013 at 10:18 amMy young one likes to correct people when they don’t say excuse me after burping. LOL
Miranda Welle
June 12, 2013 at 7:01 pmIs it necessary to call someone Ms. XXX when everyone else in the room is being referred to by first name only? I’ve been in a situation where one lady wants all the kids to call her that. While we do teach the kids to address their teachers as Ms. XXX, I just feel weird when this person insists upon it.
Sindy Murray
June 11, 2013 at 11:12 amIs it ok for my kids to address their aunts and uncles by their first name? without using the word aunt or uncle
Mayla M
June 10, 2013 at 4:05 pmQuestion: What is the proper way to interrupt some one when they are having a conversation with someone else?
Queen Grace
June 9, 2013 at 11:10 pmWe are so happy you had fun playing Kindness Kingdom! Thank you for your kind words. I am so glad you agree that Kindness Kingdom would easily be an age appropriate game for girls right up into the preteen years – we actually have many moms who bring the cards to the dinner table to “play” with their older children. And we heard from one family – who’s college-aged daughter played with her girlfriends before summer internship interviews. How fun!
Jennifer T.
June 8, 2013 at 12:53 pmI never know if RSVP is reply either way or only if you can’t come as in “regrets only.” I err on the side of telling people no matter if we plan to attend or not. That way they can plan.
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Amanda Alvarado
June 8, 2013 at 1:09 amI guess we all have the same type of questions! Mine was also how should children address adults that are not related to them? I know dd called her teachers this past year “teacher ___” and “teacher ____”. Now that she’s in daycare (school’s out for the summer), she’s also calling the ladies at the daycare “teacher ____”. Should she be calling them “miss ___”
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coley r
June 7, 2013 at 2:39 pmwe call our friends miss ___ and mr ____ first names.. is this proper or should i switch to last names even with people they are familiar with?!
Georgia Beckman
June 6, 2013 at 1:39 pmWhen my youngest daughter (now 25) was 4 years old, I was reading a book to her, oddly enough about manners! At the end of the book were all of the words used in the simple book to go over with your child to help them learn them by sight & to pronounce them. So we’re going over all the words one at a time. I would say them first, then she would repeat after me. When I got to “thank you” & said, “thank you” she responded “you’re welcome”. 🙂
Alison
June 6, 2013 at 8:31 amI like that there are games out there that focus on teaching kindness. There is not a lot of products out there like this so this one caught my eye.
Connie Gruning
June 6, 2013 at 12:19 amThe halloween that my daughter was 3 was her first real Trick or Treating trip. She already had more candy than she had ever seen. A woman dropped an apple in her bag. “Say thank you” “no” SELENA say THANK YOU “no” Selena turned to me and said “It’s an APPO!!” I said Say thank you or we go home. She took the apple out.. handed it back to the woman and said “Thank you” The woman laughed so hard she had to sit down. We went home.
caryn s
June 5, 2013 at 4:14 pmI was always taught to call my parents friends auntie and uncle when i was a kid. Now i find that kids call people by their first names. To me its seems so disrespectful. What is the proper way to address some one who is older?
Adrianne B
June 5, 2013 at 1:37 pmMy child has somehow confused the “Somali” nationality with the adjective “smelly”. Not a fun discussion to have in a city with a sizable northeast African population!
Emi
June 5, 2013 at 12:35 pmWhen I was young I was taught to call my parents friends and teachers by their last name: Mr. Smith, Mrs. Jones. However, I found when I took my daughters to daycare that the teachers wanted to be referred to by their first name: Miss Molly, Miss Susan. But some have their husbands helping with the daycare and we had a male babysitter one summer so should they be called Mister Aaron or Mister Jim? It just sounds weird to me and I would rather call them Mister Smith or Mister Jones.
Patricia
June 5, 2013 at 12:24 pmThis is neat. I love the concept. I am not sure if I can think of something right now.
Masooma F
June 5, 2013 at 10:37 amHere’s a funny anecdote: My cousin had taught her daughter to always say bless you when someone sneezed. Well once at a gathering our elderly aunt sneezed and farted at the same time. My niece looked at her mom and said “Will God still bless her since she farted too!!” LOL