Re: Manners education (second posting)

[Alice Yucht <AliceInfo@AOL.COM>]

Reposted, because so many people asked for it --and because
I have no idea how all that cyber-garbage got into the first posting:

=09A very long time ago, I had a wonderful fourth grade teacher who
taught us to remember to use our =93*C*B*G*=92s=94 in order to get along
and get ahead in her classroom, in the school, and in the world:

C  was for COURTESY --
being helpful and kind to each other,
being respectful of people and materials,
saying Please, and May I, and Thank You...

B  was for BRAINS --
planning ahead and being prepared,
staying on task and working hard,
saying Wow - look what I found, and What if we try this...
and

G  was for GIANT GRINS --
being happy and cheerful,
saying I can try, instead of I can=92t do that,
Saying YES!! that=92s a possibility!

I still have the paperweight I made almost 40 years ago in Mrs. Ellery=92s=

class:  it=92s a rock, with carefully glued-on macaroni letters spelling o=
ut
=93Use your CBG=92s today!=94   Every time I look at it, I remember how mu=
ch
fun we had in that classroom, and how much we accomplished by being
personable, productive, and above all, positive.
I still use -- and teach -- those skills in my library every day;
both directly and by example.

(Excerpted from an article called STRESS MANAGEMENT FOR SCHOOL
LIBRARIANS, originally published in *Library Talk* magazine, 3/97)

Alice H. Yucht, Teacher-Librarian
Heritage Middle School, Livingston, NJ
Aliceinfo@aol.com

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