Taming Your Wild Thanksgiving Turkeys One thing about our children: we get used to them. We grow accustomed to their faces across the dinner table - and to their mouths, wide open and chewing; to their elbows, propped up so elegantly on the table; and to their napkins, which make such fabulous paper airplanes that it's easy to see why anyone would prefer to use her sleeve instead. But just as the relatives we rarely see always notice how much taller our children are getting before we do, they also see these not-so-little lapses in manners for what they are: evidence of our horrible parenting and a clear indication that, like kittens, these children are going to be less delightful as they grow. Or that's what it's going to feel like they're thinking when those eyebrows start to go up around the table on Thanksgiving day. Sure, you know that you've been busy with things that are more important than table manners - homework, and music lessons, and providing a variety of healthy foods to your growing progeny. But your mother and aunt did all those things, too (it's time to forgive them for the boil-in-bag broccoli with cheese sauce), and they managed to nag you about your elbows at the same time. To head off any comments about the gradual decay of society and child-rearing, Cloudmom video blogger Melissa Lawrence hopes to teach her own five children (all under 10 years old) a few of the basics of table manners before they arrive at their family Thanksgiving feast. She enlisted Victoria Arbiter, royal contributor to CBS News and CTV, to help her do it in beautifully accented style. Watch her vlog entry, above, for some fun ways to persuade your own "wild turkeys" that the Thanksgiving meal is just as delicious when eaten with table manners fit for a visit from the Queen (who isn't, of course, doing anything special this Thursday).