Social Manners

Learn different ways to be courageous.

The choices you make matter! By being trustworthy, you choose not to be a bully. Learn about how you can be trustworthy.

Everyone knows the cool beans. They’re sooooo cool. And then there’s the uncool has-bean.... Always on the sidelines, one bean unsuccessfully tries everything he can to fit in with the crowd - until one day the cool beans show him how it’s done. With equal measures of humor, wit, and charm, the number one New York Times best-selling Jory John crafts another incredible story, reminding us that it’s cooler to be kind.

Once in a generation, the effluvia strikes, and it affects everyone differently. Missy wakes one morning to find the upside-down house is...right-side up? It's not long before Missy has to quarantine the house. Meanwhile, she's still fielding calls from worried parents, and Louie can't keep his sticky fingers from taking other people's things!

Being cooperative is working together with others for a common purpose. Families can work together to keep our living areas clean. Children can paint together to create a beautiful piece of art. What are some ways you can be cooperative?

This audiobook explains many different ways that children can be responsible and show responsibility.

Considerate people are caring and respectful of others. Showing good manners, sharing, and doing something special for someone else are all ways to be considerate. What are some ways you can be considerate?

Being tolerant means having respect for others whose beliefs, backgrounds, likes, or ideas are different than yours. By being tolerant, you are treating other people the way you would like to be treated. What are some ways you can be tolerant?

This audiobook explains many different ways that children can be fair and show fairness.

This audiobook explains many different ways that children show respect and are respectful.

Being brave can be difficult, because it means facing your fears. For some people, being brave means facing their fear of flying. For other people, it means facing their fear of talking in front of a group of people. How can you face your fears and be brave?

Being honest with others is important, because when you are honest, people trust you. Sometimes telling a lie may seem like the easy thing to do, but it is never the right thing to do. What are some ways you can be honest?

Be a good citizen—it's a great way to be! In this endearing character education tale, listeners learn about the different things they can do every day to be a good citizen, including having manners, strong values, and helping local government.

We live in a world that's very different from the one in which Emily Post came of age. Many of us who are nice (but who also sometimes say "f*ck") are frequently at a loss for guidelines about how to be a good person who deals effectively with the onslaught of rudeness we all encounter. To lead us through this this miasma of modern manners, syndicated columnist Amy Alkon - The Advice Goddess - gives us a new set of manners for our 21st-century lives.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has gone away unexpectedly and left her niece, Missy Piggle-Wiggle, in charge of the Upside-Down House and the beloved animals who live there: Lester the pig, Wag the dog, and Penelope the parrot, among others. Families in town soon realize that like her great-aunt, Missy Piggle-Wiggle has inventive cures for all sorts of childhood (mis)behavior: The Whatever Cure and the Just-a-Minute Cure, for instance. What is a stressed out parent to do? Why, call Missy Piggle-Wiggle, of course!

Peter takes pride in being rude and gross. He doesn't think manners are important at all. But when his family starts to use bad manners, Peter gets a reality check.

Sharing can be tough. Sometimes we’d rather keep things, including our thoughts or feelings, to ourselves. But a good friend is generous with others. You can share your toys, your time, and so much more.

Missy Piggle-Wiggle is finally starting to feel settled in at the upside-down house, and the families in town have come to trust her magical cures for all sorts of childhood (mis)behavior, just like her great-aunt. But right when everything is going so well, a terrible storm blasts through Little Spring Valley, damaging the upside-down house. Now the house is in need of repair (and isn't happy about it one bit), and money is becoming pretty tight for Missy. And, on top of that, the children of Little Spring Valley continue to need Missy's inventive cures....

Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a “jiffy” lasts a hundredth of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. She knows that bats always turn left when exiting a cave and that peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. But she doesn’t know why nobody at school seems to like her. So when Harriet is spotted by a top model agent, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself.

Sophronia continues her second year at finishing school in style - with a steel-bladed fan secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of course. Such a fashionable choice of weapon comes in handy when Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap, and the charming Lord Felix Mersey stowaway on a train to return their classmate Sidheag to her werewolf pack in Scotland. No one suspected what - or who - they would find aboard that suspiciously empty train.