The Villagers / Mentors are Needed - Parents, Families, Communities, Educators and Ministers

Nia Salmer (My 10th Grandchild)

BE A MENTOR TO OUR CHILDREN.

Many of our African American Families and Churches has dropped the ball as villagers/mentors in teaching the neighborhood children - Basic Manners!

Let's Make Sure Our Children Fit In. Character and Life Skills should be taught in the classrooms in our nation's schools to our children from early childhood. Grandparents no longer lives next door and parents are working.

Years ago, African American Churches would assist parents in teaching their children proper social skills. Okay, we all have dropped the ball! Let's pick the ball up and take it to the classrooms and bring it back in our churches.

The Villagers / Mentors are needed - Parent, Family, Community, Educators and Ministers.

Etiquette is Basically Good Manners! The best etiquette is based on "The Golden Rules" being kind and polite to others. Learning social skills is the key in being able to express acceptable behavior.

Education is the key to success in life. I have found that the majority of students in public and some private schools, Jr. Colleges and University lack the understanding, training, and experience of good social skills / etiquette. This creates an insecurity and reluctance to blend with various societies. Manners can help students get the grades and stay in school - teach students a good set of health values, respect for human life, and a respect for education and to excel in school. Proper manners can help a student increase his or her overall academic achievements; reduce the placement of students in special education classes; reduce suspensions and expulsions; reduce dropout rate for students; increasing the graduation rate and college attendance of students; increase the rate of class attendance; and increase Self-Esteem and Student Achievement.

Let's call our FAMILY MEMBERS back to the DINNER TABLE where everyone expressed what was happening in his or her life. Before dinner was over we knew which family member needed help.

My Great Grandparents James Jackson and Matilda Johnson-Jackson took me to church and they were my first teachers to teach me lessons on Manners and Social Skills.

My etiquette / life skills books are lessons they and other family members taught me from birth..

Today, I continue the COMMUNITY WORK that my Great Grandparents James and Matilda Johnson-Jackson, Sr. started in the 1800's-- helping the neighborhood children. Mentoring and teaching children and their parents BASE MANNERS.


BE A MENTOR TO OUR CHILDREN