Miss Manners, mom
Miss Manners: Why does the staff at my kids’ pediatrician office call me Mom?
like I’m not a separate person from my children. “Which mother? I’m Mrs. Starwood.” (Or “Dr. Starwood,” if it applies and you wish to pull rank.) If that does not work — or is forgotten the very next visit — Miss Manners permits you to be ...
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: Are there polite ways to refuse ... I have no interest in talking with these children, and they have no interest in talking with me. Furthermore, I believe the grandparents ...
I asked a man sitting in front of me at a college musical to remove his distracting baseball cap, which he did. My wife later ...
Is she? GENTLE READER: More like demonstrating it. Miss Manners is guessing that these children are in your neighborhood because it is safer than theirs — in terms of foot traffic, at least.
Miss Manners is guessing that these children are in your neighborhood because it is safer than theirs -- in terms of foot traffic, at least. But apparently not in terms of kindness.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I started going gray at age 14 ... I don’t want to go back. I’m married with children, and my husband and kids think that the natural gray actually makes me more beautiful.
GENTLE READER: Decent people do not, as you said, admonish people directly. Nor do they go looking for trouble. If the ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: The man I’ve been dating for the ... My young nieces and nephews do so, and when I have children, I will expect the same from them. How can I explain to him that these words ...
Any Black parent knows we have to talk about this stuff with our kids. If we don’t, we’re not protecting them.” We Miss You, George Floyd (U of Minn Press) But the book — one of just two ...
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