Parents know that children learn some lessons more quickly than others. Youngsters may be eager to learn lessons related to an extracurricular activity like dance or sports, but other lessons, ...

GENTLE READER: By not explaining or justifying the friendship. The first three times you answer, “Because I like her,” do it ...

Dear Miss Manners: To prevent party guests from driving impaired, I came up with a fun game using a $21 breathalyzer I bought ...

While there are certainly plenty of outdated etiquette rules and traditional expectations still being followed by most people, studies show that proper table manners, like keeping your elbows off the ...

Miss Manners suspects it is the fussy name and the embellishments — such as embroidery, floral motifs and monograms — that ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Ten years ago, I was a working single mom to a loving, but rather difficult, 5-year-old boy. Not having enough bandwidth for everything, I decided to pick my battles in raising him.

GENTLE READER: As you are a teacher, you probably subscribe to the idea that normal behavior -- which is to say, that ...