I have noticed that humans, both adults and children, love to interrupt each other during conversation. We all guilty of it, including myself. The other person is speaking and it triggers an idea, an experience, an event, and we have to share it immediately before we forget. I know I am guilty of having done [...]
Author Archives: Karin
Manners are the fruit of Mindfulness
March 30, 2012 – 2:46 pm
In addition to writing A Quest for Good Manners, I am also a children’s yoga and mindfulness teacher. I wrote my first book on manners, which seems to quite different from mindfulness. However, I’m realizing more and more, how linked manners and mindfulness are. Compared to mindfulness, manners seem a little superficial, especially when we [...]
Don’t give up, Parents!
January 21, 2012 – 5:15 pm
A new year has started fresh, and as parents we are once again inspired to guide our children in becoming more grateful and more compassionate individuals. The constant reminders may seem like they are falling on deaf ears but don’t give up! I know the blank expressions, the constant forgetting to say please and thank you, [...]
North vs South Debate: To say “Yes, Ma’am” and No, Sir”….or Not!
July 20, 2011 – 10:09 am
I just returned from a book tour to South and North Carolina where I was interviewed for TV and radio and by customers in bookstores where I was doing author signings. We know that manners differ around the world, but we forget that they also differ from region to region within the United States, too. [...]
Magical Seahorses Change Color–and the Males Carry the Babies!
July 2, 2011 – 8:26 am
Back from a wonderful book tour for A Quest for Good Manners to California, where I visited many bookstores in the Bay Area, Sacramento and Carmel—plus lots of interviews Best part, however, was going with my two oldest daughters. One highlight was Monterey Aquarium, which is just unbelievable. A few years ago it was all [...]
Congratulations on your publication today, A Quest for Good Manners!
June 1, 2011 – 8:40 am
Yippee! Congratulations and Happy Birthday A Quest for Good Manners! We hope you have a long life filled with lots of laughter and page turning! We hope that boys and girls everywhere will be entertained by your quirky personalities from Princess Rosalind to Sparkler. May you find a home in thousands of bookshelves, and may you [...]
Mindfulness: Transforming Stressed-Out Kids into Joyful Kids
May 22, 2011 – 4:34 pm
I recently attended A Mindfulness for Children conference with Susan Kaiser Greenland, author of The Mindful Child. As a children’s manners teacher and a kids’ yoga teacher, I incorporate many mindfulness exercises into my classes. Mindfulness is an awareness of the present moment. Susan’s Inner Kids Program focuses on “the New ABCs – Attention, Balance & [...]
Presenting to Teenagers the Hardest!
April 17, 2011 – 8:03 am
As a first-time author, I have started to do a lot presentations. My most nerve-racking occurred a couple of weeks ago, when I had to unravel the mysteries of book publishing to a room full of teenagers. I have worked in many areas of book publishing from the editorial side at Virgin Books in London to international [...]
Don’t expect my kids to be perfect!
March 2, 2011 – 1:23 pm
My plan is to write many books for children. As you know my first book is on manners. I also happen to be a children’s etiquette teacher. This is all very exciting, other than that now everyone expects my four children under 10 years old to have impeccable manners. Talk about stress, especially when you [...]
Bringing etiquette to the Daisies
February 7, 2011 – 8:08 pm
Taught a high tea & etiquette class to 35 daisies. What did they like best? When I did a reading of the book–and when I came out as the Queen. So maybe the Queen needs to do the reading to really wow them!
