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Now, parents are forking out up to 850 for a four-day course at the University of Cambridge that teaches children good table manners, how to manage their money, how to wash their clothes and plan healthy meals.
Sean Davoren, a head butler at the Lanesborough hotel in London and father of five, helps run the Ready4Life courses.
He started etiquette classes after coming across five-year-olds who did not know how to use a knife and fork because they were used to eating only pizzas and hamburgers.
He says that many of his charges eat with their mouths open, do not sit up straight and lick their fingers.
The aim, he says, is for teenagers not to be judged, but to come across as well as anybody else sitting at the table.
Holding a knife like a pen is out. Breaking bread rolls is in.
Manners, he says, are not simply out-modish ways of behaving but are about respecting others and are vital for a personfs success.
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