GENTLE READER: The best counsel Miss Manners has for you is to invite guests who engage in conversation, so that they are not ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: At a restaurant, I laid my credit card on the table to signal we were ready to pay. My daughter said that ...

In their eyes, such table manners help the kids consume nutritious food in a fuss-free manner and still behave in a way that ...

Dear Miss Manners: At a restaurant, I laid my credit card on the table to signal we were ready to pay. My daughter said that ...

Child Sims with good manners participate in family chores, say "please" and "thank you", and set the table. Generally, they are helpful and cooperative children. Children with bad manners don't mind ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was walking in the humanities building of the university where I am a graduate student. I turned the ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was walking in the humanities building of the university where I am a graduate student. I turned the ...

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

Years later, my father died suddenly. My uncle was supportive to me then, and my boyfriend was cordial to him as a kindness ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Some years ago, my uncle, having never met my then-boyfriend, made a series of racist jokes about him. (My ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: At a restaurant, I laid my credit card on the table to signal we were ready to pay. My daughter said that was discourteous and I should wait for the server to bring the bill.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: At a restaurant, I laid my credit card on the table to signal we were ready to pay. My daughter said that was discourteous and I should wait for the server to bring the bill.