An etiquette guide for your unborn son

Once you get an idea of how things ought to be, it’s hard to stop thinking about it. And as documentary filmmaker Walker Lamond started to think about the kind of son he would want to raise, he began to offer pithy advice via a blog he called “1001 Rules For My Unborn Son.”

The blog — a collection of music, aphorisms and photos — gained a following and, as these things do, morphed into a book that is set to be released on October 27. The idea was to help create a set of rules that embodied the advice his father had offered him. 

A number of Lamond’s rules are about eating and etiquette. I’ve pulled out eight that are reasonable suggestions on how we all ought to live, regardless of age or gender.