{"id":240623,"date":"2025-06-26T19:19:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=240623"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:49:11","slug":"good-manners-begin-at-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/good-manners-begin-at-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Good manners begin at breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"404\"><em><strong>by Christos Zabounis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"404\">One does not need to have delved into the \u201crelevance of numerous associations,\u201d as Cavafy put it, to realize that politeness opens the very doors that rudeness closes. But how does one become polite? Through Paideia. Attention! Paideia includes not only formal education at school but also the upbringing that parents provide to their children. A book written by Princess Marie-Chantal de Grece \u2014 as she signs in the English edition, or Marie-Chantal de Gr\u00e8ce in the Greek one \u2014 deals with child-rearing and the rules of good manners for young ones, hence the double meaning of the title \u201cat breakfast.\u201d The wife of Crown Prince Pavlos of Greece, as is his official title (or Pavlos de Gr\u00e8ce, according to the registry), knows the subject well, being the mother of a large family. The experience she gained raising five children \u2014 combined with the manners she learned at home and, naturally, with the support of royal protocol \u2014 inspired her to start a popular blog for mothers, followed by the writing of a <em data-start=\"1074\" data-end=\"1088\">savoir vivre<\/em> guide for young ages. A perfectionist by nature, she \u201crewrote\u201d it within four years, placing special emphasis on Technology \u2014 namely, the handling of electronic devices (phones, tablets, computers) and the balance between real and virtual life. \u00c0 lire!<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"404\">\n<p data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"404\"><em>Translated also in Greek, by Fereniki publications:<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"404\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-240633 img-responsive img-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/010100081975.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/010100081975.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/010100081975-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/010100081975-422x632.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christos Zabounis One does not need to have delved into the \u201crelevance of numerous associations,\u201d as Cavafy put it, to realize that politeness opens the very doors that rudeness closes. But how does one become polite? Through Paideia. Attention! Paideia includes not only formal education at school but also the upbringing that parents provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":240617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18496],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240637,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240623\/revisions\/240637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}