Advice; Miss Manners: My friends expect money for their kids’ graduations. Do I have to send gifts? Published: ; May. 30, 2022, 8:00 p.m.

Miss Manners suggests that next time you pick up the kids, you say, “All right, everyone. Here are the ground rules. Everyone says ‘hello’ when entering the car, and ‘goodbye and thank you ...

Dear Miss Manners: Gifts used to be something one put thought into. Unlike some of your readers, I don’t mind wedding registries. I treat them as guides, not demands, and don’t feel ...

Miss Manners suggests only the courtesy of telling your brother-in-law that the children will be opening their presents at 7, if they can wait even that long, but that he is welcome to sleep in.

Miss Manners will warn you, however, that blunt does not always yield a response. And that you may well have opened the floodgates for guests to bring anyone they want -- now and for the life of ...

GENTLE READER: You are in charge.You get to make the rules. Miss Manners suggests that next time you pick up the kids, you say, “All right, everyone. Here are the ground rules.

Miss Manners: Grown kids solicit ‘spending money’ for parents’ cruise Published: Oct. 23, 2023, 8:00 p.m. Judith Martin, known as Miss Manners, answers a question about being asked for money ...