By doing so, she is telling her friends how much they need to spend and depriving them of the fun of choosing a special gift ...

Miss Manners, written by Judith Martin and her two perfect children, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Marin, has chronicled the continuous rise and fall of American manners since 1978.

She is best known by her nom de plume, Miss Manners. Her book, (one of 20) Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior has been a crucial reference guide in my home and nearly as ...

Jennifer Brimming, the newly appointed principal at the St Budeaux school is asking parents and carers to send in suggestions ...

Katherine Rundell said children can handle hefty themes, but finds it “bad manners to offer a child a story and give them just a moral.” In more than a dozen books and several hundred articles ...

Dad’s girlfriend showed up to the letter writer’s bowling birthday party and took over. Dear Miss Manners: For my 40th ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names ...

But if they are talking pleasantries, you may smile or laugh or add something and see if it takes. There is a good chance ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A pair of neighbors hosted my wife and me for an impromptu dinner, to which we contributed a nice salad.

At a bowling party for my 40th birthday, my dad brought his girlfriend. It didn’t take her long to try to take over the whole ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A pair of neighbors hosted my wife and me for an impromptu dinner, to which we contributed a nice salad.