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By the time your children are teenagers, good manners and behaviour should certainly be second nature.

If your teenagers are sitting watching TV or working at the computer and you enter with someone new for them to meet, they should stop what they are doing, stand up, shake hands and introduce themselves. As the parent you will probably add something about the visitor which your children should pick up on and ask a relevant question. If it is a family friend they should again stop what they are doing, stand up, either shake hands or kiss and make the effort to ask how they are or enquire if they’ve been on holiday and if so did they have a good time.

Sons and daughters should, without having to be asked, help lady guests and even men guests with their coats.

If a family friend visits and the parents are out, your teenagers should ask if they would like a soft drink or a cup of tea and talk to them until their parents return, not leave them on their own whilst they return to the TV.

Explain to your teens how important it is to show an interest in the person they are talking to and not just talk about themselves. It is also worth mentioning that at parties, however boring the person is they are talking to, they must keep eye contact and not let their eyes wander around looking for someone more interesting. To extricate themselves from the ‘party bore’ (which is usually the person who has nothing to say or only talks about themselves or their pet subject) rather than just walk off, they should politely say, with a smile, how enjoyable it was to talk to them and that they hope to see them later (not adding that this will preferably be from a distance).