I hold formal dinner parties with limited place settings. But there are friends who never respond to my invitations and show ...

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How can I respond with dignity when people insist on defining my husband by a mistake from decades ago, instead of by the ...

Kids who don't learn good manners aren't just at risk of being rude, they may also suffer socially and professionally as adults. Teaching manners is a form of empathy training, and that's good for ...

Miss Manners hopes, however, that you will not otherwise dumb down your charming, seated dinner parties because of a few outlaws. We, the purveyors of fish knives and strawberry forks, are a dying ...

Calm posture, polite timing, and full confidence. Good manners clearly work.

My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge (such as an emailed “I wondered if you had received this,” with a second copy of the invitation) — and ...

Good manners have not been cancelled, yet. Here are some old-school values that still indicate respect and care.

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Despite having "forever play dates" with each other, my kids have had a couple of play dates with other children, and they've ...

Dear Eric: I get a holiday card from a family consisting of a mom, dad and daughter. They also have a son who died in infancy ...

The country could learn a lesson in civil discourse from what transpired at the South Bend City Council meeting on... Read ...