Ways Manners Help the World Go Better

1. Using manners makes you a better person.

2. If you use manners regularly, you will have more friends and people will like you more because you are polite.

3. When you use manners you are being grateful.

4. Using manners is showing respect to others.

5. If you are tidy and regularly pick up your mess, you are noticing the fact you have made a mess. 

6. Speaking in a low or quiet voice keeps a room peaceful. Being loud can be a distraction and can count as invading others' personal space.

7. Getting on with a job or something you have been told to do is being respectful of that person by following the instructions they have given you. 

8. If you touch other people and invade their personal space and privacy you are being disrespectful of that person's privacy.

9. Not using bad or offensive language is being respectful of everyone else you are near because using bad language makes you look bad as a person.

10. Asking other people about their day or how they are feeling can make the other person’s day a lot better and can cheer them up. 

11. Making other people feel better by recognising they are in trouble or need help is being helpful and can make you feel good about yourself too.

12. Appreciating others' helpfulness makes you look better as a person and helps other people by recognising their help and acknowledging them.

13. Taking the blame for yourself instead of blaming other people and lying, is making the scene not last as long and when you get it over and done with, everyone can get on with something else. 

14. Be honest to everyone. Being honest with people can make people like you and let you have lots of friends and people can trust you because they know you don’t lie to others. 

15. Be kind to those around you. When you are rude and disrespectful, people will hate you and not like you. It will also make you feel unhappy or angry if you are rude to others. 

16. Seeing a good, funny or positive side to every mistake is a good skill to have and can help people realise everything isn’t always bad. 

17. Compliment people regularly. It can give people a good reason to be happy and it makes them happy to hear something nice about themselves. A compliment can even just be about how nice you think they are or “you like them because they are funny.” It can make everyone’s day much better. 

18. By using manners you can be a better person. Without manners the world would be like a pig sty because no-one would take care of anything or anyone. 

19. Noticing others mistakes and helping them fix it. 

20. Thinking about how others may react. If you realise that something you do is going to make someone react badly, don’t do it. 

21. Giving things that aren’t yours back to the person that owns it. 

22. Ignoring people doing the wrong thing can make that person stop being disrespectful and can make that person realise what they are doing wrong. 

23. If you can see an argument starting, don't be a part of it.