Category: Parents

Dining Etiquette Series – Responsibilities of a Host

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A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
~ Horace, Roman lyric poet, satirist, and critic, 65 – 8 B.C.

Now that autumn has arrived and the busy fall entertaining season begins, I’m returning to topics of dining etiquette. As a student, your future very likely will include formal entertaining and hosting for both personal and business occasions. As Horace observed millennia ago, planning and implementing a dinner or luncheon party can be fraught with opportunities for mishaps, often referred to as Murphy’s Law. 

Goodbye Parents, Hello College – Part 2

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  You say "Goodbye" and I say "Hello.  Hello, hello."
 Hello, Goodbye, by the Beatles

You’ve already visited your campus, taken the tours, met with some key people, attended orientation sessions, received your welcome packet, activated whatever needs to be activated – or are in the process of doing so – discussed and negotiated various subjects with your parents, met your new roommate and your RA, and so on. If you haven’t completed all of the aforementioned, let’s start with your parents: 

Goodbye Parents, Hello College – Part 1

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“You say goodbye and I say hello,” from the 1967 hit song,
Hello, Goodbye, by the Beatles 

According to Wikipedia, speaking about his popular song Paul McCartney "gave an explanation of its meaning in an interview with Disc: ‘The answer to everything is simple. It’s a song about everything and nothing. If you have black you have to have white. That’s the amazing thing about life.’

Home for the Holidays

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Be a Good Guest at Home

Mother Teresa said, “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”   There is something to be said for that philosophy; when families are strong, loving and supportive it helps its members individually to be so, as well.  That promotes a well-being that can spread kindness and consideration to all with whom one comes into touch, and eventually throughout the world.  That philosophy is the cornerstone of etiquette.  To come full circle with that thought today, such kindness and consideration for others should be the basis of one’s visit home for the holidays.