However well-meaning this family is, Miss Manners can understand that it creates a nuisance for your daughter, who is trying ...

I love being a mom, don’t get me wrong. And I love my sons. But this drives me bananas. I’m not these people’s mom!

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A woman my husband works with bought him five work shirts. (This is something that happens quite often ...

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: My father, my three siblings and I are having a surprise 80th birthday party for my mother. One of her ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My father, my three siblings and I are having a surprise 80th birthday party for my mother. One of her cousins responded that they were coming, but also asked what restaurant my ...

Miss Manners finds it strange that the unnatural dyed look is the approved standard. Her dear mother, who was a teacher, observed that children believed that when ladies grew old, their hair ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My father, my three siblings and I are planning a surprise 80th birthday party for my mother. One of her cousins responded that they were coming, but also asked what restaurant ...

Dear Miss Manners: Some years ago, my uncle, having never met my then-boyfriend, made a series of racist jokes about him. (My boyfriend is part-Asian.) These jokes were made on my blog ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My father, my three siblings and I are planning a surprise 80th birthday party for my mother. One of her cousins responded that they were coming, but also asked what restaurant ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Some years ago, my uncle, having never met my then-boyfriend, made a series of racist jokes about him. (My boyfriend is part-Asian.) Miss Manners: I felt like stealing her ...