Boys... and Manners?
We live in a day and age where manners are NOT highly valued, and bad manners are sometimes actively encouraged. Plain old common courtesy is at an all-time low. If there ever was a time that instilling good, old-fashioned manners into our boys was difficult, it is today. In fact, it can be one of the toughest jobs a parent has to face.
THE BOYS & MANNERS TOOLKIT is a practical, no-frills manual that equips you with the basic tools you need to help you guide your boys in improving and understanding the importance of their manners.
Chapters included in this handy volume:
104 IMPORTANT THINGS YOUR BOYS NEED TO KNOW
MAKING MANNERS STICK: Parents Share Their Best Tips and Advice
RULES OF THE HOUSE: The Most Important Household Manners
CIVILITY COSTS YOU NOTHING: Quotes on Good Manners that You Won't Forget
THE KEY CONCEPTS YOU MUST REMEMBER about Boys and Manners
THE BOYS & MANNERS TOOLKIT was compiled based on interviews with over 300 parents of boys, so the advice and suggestions included in this guide are 100% based on real-life, practical experience. It is written from a Faith-based perspective, but the advice in this book is applicable to all families and will give you a game plan to help your son become a more thoughtful and mannerly gentleman.

David Andrews is eager to land a job at the school he's working at as a substitute teacher. But he keeps getting rejected, and he ventures out on a road trip to clear his head.

Armed with a fishing pole and old friends, he looks at the journey as one of epic importance. With the blessing of his wife, he's determined to relive his past to find his future.

It's not a midlife crisis; he's just tired of not catching a break. His journey takes him throughout the country and beyond, to places such as Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland.; Charleston, South Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia, Mexico and Guatemala. There's plenty of fishing and reliving memories along the way.

David seems to be making progress in exorcising the demons of his past, but when unexpected tragedy strikes, he must consider whether or not he's been looking at things all wrong. What's really important is about to be revealed in "To Clear My Head."

David Andrews is eager to land a job at the school he's working at as a substitute teacher. But he keeps getting rejected, and he ventures out on a road trip to clear his head.

Armed with a fishing pole and old friends, he looks at the journey as one of epic importance. With the blessing of his wife, he's determined to relive his past to find his future.

It's not a midlife crisis; he's just tired of not catching a break. His journey takes him throughout the country and beyond, to places such as Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland.; Charleston, South Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia, Mexico and Guatemala. There's plenty of fishing and reliving memories along the way.

David seems to be making progress in exorcising the demons of his past, but when unexpected tragedy strikes, he must consider whether or not he's been looking at things all wrong. What's really important is about to be revealed in "To Clear My Head."

Jim Erskine shares his stories, passions, adventures and feelings experienced while being an avid fly-fisherman, husband and father. Although he has been fishing all his life, the day his father-in-law placed that first fly rod into his hands, his life seemed too changed. But then again, all of life's priorities seem to change as you get older From "Amorous Adventures on Tim Pond: "

"Within the first two or three casts, I had hooked my first brook trout. A seven-inch wonder that was absolutely gorgeous with spots, colors and feistiness I hadn't ever experienced. How could this tiny fish be so wonderful to catch? How could I get so much pleasure out of tricking a dumb fish in that a piece of deer hair was actually a bug and twitching the fly line made it move on the water? Regardless, with pun intended, I was hooked."