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Jill Rigby Garner, character education and parenting expert, nonprofit founder of Baton Rouge-based Manners of the Heart, is also an inspiring speaker, award-winning author, and the publisher of heart education programs and books for students, educators, and parents. Jill’s deepest desire and calling are to bring a return of God’s principles of respect and civility to our society.

Her most recent books, Raising Unselfish Children in a Self-Absorbed World and the Gold Mom’s Choice, Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World have been endorsed by Dr. Henry Cloud, Dennis Rainey, Focus on the Family, Dr. Kevin Leman, and John Rosemond. Due to popular demand, she has just completed an extensive expansion of the original Manners of the Heart curriculum for grades K-5.

A popular media guest, Jill has appeared on the CBS Early Show, CNN, Focus on the Family, Family Life Today, and hosts a monthly parenting segment on local WAFB. Whether sharing the stage with Chonda Pierce to minister to women’s hearts or speaking to a small group of moms and dads, Jill’s passion never diminishes. Most recently, she participated as one of twelve experts in an online global parenting summit, through the innovative FLOW platform out of Singapore.

Listeners are motivated to action through Jill’s contagious passion that fosters transformative change. Jill’s refreshment comes from quiet time in God’s Word, the study of classical Christian writings, and prayer. Her favorite roles are as wife to husband, Nick, and mother & GG to her growing family who testify to her calling.

Here’s the story behind the story… I’m a blonde-headed, blue-eyed southerner with a drawl that occasionally doubles the syllables in words. In spite of my appearance and dialect, I’m a thinker. Yes, blondes can think, and in my opinion, southerners think more than most folks. We talk slowly, thinking about the next thing we’re going to say, because we’re also talkers.

Some of us aren’t just talkers, we’re storytellers. That’s the case with me.

Stories of my life that began in a playpen in the back corner booth of the “Help-U-Self” diner in a small southern town while Mother worked our way out of poverty. When I was ten years old I knelt beside my bed and asked the Lord to let me be “a good wife and mother with a mission,” after hearing a sermon on the importance of being a missionary at home. Seems only fitting in light of that prayer, that years later I studied in interior design and practiced professionally after becoming a wife and before I became a mother.

And now, a woman on a mission to bring about a reformation of Manners, that’s Manners with a capital “M”. Much more than you think…

I am Jill Anne Boler McDonald Rigby Garner. Guess you can see from my full name why I have a lot of stories to tell. It’s not what you think…

Books
Manners of the Heart (MOH, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2008)

Manners of the Heart at Home (MOH, 2001, 2008)

Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World (Howard Books/Simon & Schuster, 2006, 2013)

Raising Unselfish Children in a Self-Absorbed World (Howard Books/Simon & Schuster, 2008)

The new Manners of the Heart, Heart Education Curriculum for K-3 (MOH, 2013)

Manners of the Heart at the Table, Etiquette Education Curriculum for K-5 (MOH, 2012, 2013)

Contributing Author:

Tending the Soul: 90 Days of Spiritual Nourishment (Moody Publishers, 2011)

Intimate Moments with God (Honor Books, 2003)

Print, Radio, and TV Appearances
Focus on the Family, Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World http://www.focusonthefamily.com/popups/media_player.aspx?MediaId={707E6774-B506-4558-AE67-FF6A48B6FE8A}

Focus on the Family, The Story behind the Story (Personal testimony) http://www.focusonthefamily.com/popups/media_player.aspx?MediaId={6307B607-2936-493B-871D-51EB02EEF579}

HomeWord with Jim Burns, Part 1 http://www.homeword.com/popup_media_player.php?lid=4549

HomeWord with Jim Burns, Part 2 http://www.homeword.com/popup_media_player.php?lid=4549

Free Resources
The School of Respect (From RRCDW)

Family Protection Policy (From RRCDW)

8 Ways to Help Your Children Become Pray-ers (From RRCDW)

8 Ways to Help Your Teen Succeed at Being In Charge (From RRCDW)

35 Ways to Cultivate a House of Respect (From RRCDW)

ABC’s of Being a Kid with Your Kids (From RRCDW)

Twenty Years of Wisdom (From RUCSW)

Twenty Years of Prayer (From RUCSW)

Twenty Years of Scripture (From RUCSW)

The GQ12+1 Generosity Quotient Test (From RUCSW)

5 Capital Commitments for Parents (From RUCSW)

“Humble Confidence” bookmark