Best of Miss Manners: 11-year-old wants a birthday gift registry and her grandma thinks that’s tacky
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: My laundry was returned to me with panties that weren’t mine
My instinct is to return the item in a little bag with a note saying it isn’t mine. But somehow that feels rude, presumptuous ...
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Miss Manners: My dad’s girlfriend ruined our bowling party
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names ...
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Miss Manners: Do we have to reciprocate a dinner with people we don’t like?
GENTLE READER: Your confidence that you are not required to reciprocate in your apartment, though technically correct, ...
Inside the House of Commons nursery – where children make smoothies and chair ‘committees’
As cut-throat as Parliamentary politics is, getting a nursery space for Commons tots might just top it ...
Plymouth school launches 'refreshing' new initiative to make children's dreams come true
Jennifer Brimming, the newly appointed principal at the St Budeaux school is asking parents and carers to send in suggestions ...
Miss Manners: How to handle a new guest who overtakes your birthday bowling game
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names ...
Miss Manners: How to handle feeling left out in a beauty salon conversation
GENTLE READER: Funny. Miss Manners is more accustomed to being asked how to stay out of beauty salon conversations, not how ...
Miss Manners: My father’s rude girlfriend shoved me aside at my own birthday party
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 ...
Miss Manners: Reciprocating an invitation from people you don’t like
Dear Miss Manners: A pair of neighbors hosted my wife and me for an impromptu dinner, to which we contributed a nice salad.
Miss Manners: A virtual stranger disrupted my bowling party, and nobody knew what to do
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names of all 12 guests into the lanes (two lanes, six people at each).