Etiquette for the Internet Generation

For those of you who have children preparing for your bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, or to go back to school, you should check out Back to Basics ™ program on Sunday, July 26, 2009. I'm honored to share with you details on this manners workshop for kids hosted by Deborah Joy Block of The Wedding Dance Specialists, friend of Cristina Maria Special Events. It can help prepare them to be well behaved at formal functions so they can put their best foot forward!

It’s purpose it to help the Internet Generation rediscover the simple pleasures of human interactions such as courtesy, tolerance, consideration and the human touch, despite the growing impersonal nature of our environment. Today's youth live in a fast-paced digital world where interpersonal contact is often conducted via cell phones, text messaging, TV and computer screens.

Good manners and proper personal presentation is not a luxury but rather a necessity in today's increasingly competitive society. Proper etiquette is a mandatory social reality.

• Life Skills
• Table Manners
• Daily Etiquette
• Character and Leadership Education
• Telephone and Conversation Skills
• Thank you notes
• Introductions
• Phone skills
• Dining Skills
• Setting a Formal Table

Deborah Joy Block, the Protocol Instructor for Back to Basics has taught social dance etiquette and special event protocol to thousands of students for 12 years and publishes a popular monthly newsletter providing guidance on social event etiquette for the past 7 years that has been distributed to a total of 35,000 households. Mrs. Block graduated from the prestigious American School of Protocol an elite etiquette school which has been profiled by every major TV channel - ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX and the BBC. There she was certified to teach Manners and Etiquette and Life Skills to k-12.

Details of Back to Basics

Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009

Covering: Proper Introductions, Hand shakes, Eye Contact, Good conversation skills, Thank you Notes, Respect and Courtesy, Social Dancing, Dance Floor Etiquette and more!

Workshop 1: 1st – 5th grades at 9am -12 noon

Workshop 2: 6th-9th grades at 12:30 – 3:30

Location: Star Lounge and Ballroom, 7203 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA 22003

Registration Form: find the form at www.backtobasicsmanners.com

Payment: with credit card over the phone or online at http://mannersworkshop.eventbrite.com

Fall Workshops will include: Cell/Telephone Manners, setting a formal table, dining etiquette which includes a 4 course meal, good posture and presentation, social dancing and dance floor etiquette.

A portion of revenues will be donated to the Shriners Hospital for Children.

Check out the websites of Back to Basics and School Steps for featured articles and more information on the event, programs, and Deborah Joy Block.

Feel free to contact Deborah Joy Block, Back to Basics Director at 703.732.4846 or info@backtobasicsmanners.com.

Providing our children the tools that give them confidence goes a long way.

So they can shine in their moment!