While we may feel offended when a kid is rude, if we show some compassion, we may be better able to traverse through any ...

"Once, after returning from summer vacation, a student looked me up and down and said, 'You look a lot older now.'" ...

Even if you’ve been modeling good manners ... Kids, and humans in general, respond much better to positive feedback than scolding. Try to avoid reprimanding your child—chances are whatever ...

Both of them have terrible table manners. While it bugs me, I could ignore it if it weren’t for how it affects my children. When their aunt and uncle are over, the kids’ own manners regress.

In “Table Manners: A Casualty of Changing Times ... On the right, Gallant does the correct thing,” Beck wrote. “If Goofus is rude, Gallant is polite. If Goofus lies, Gallant tells ...

What could I have said to indicate that their comments were rude without offending them? GENTLE READER: It is impolite to tell others that they are being rude, but perhaps Miss Manners can ...

Harriette Cole: My friend got engaged, and now she’s doing things that worry me Miss Manners: I’m not going to stop taking candid photos of strangers Dear Abby: My own kids tell me I need to ...

Dear Miss Manners ... mention something about the kids, I am often asked which of them are my “real” grandchildren. I find that question to be extremely rude, and I reply that we do not ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS ... resting on the edge of the table, so I do this when there’s no one to offend. At the table closest to me was a family with three kids, probably between 8 and 12 years ...

One couple showed up with their children in tow: the very aunt and uncle who had been questioning the no-kids policy ... Miss Manners agrees that your relatives were rude to bring them anyway.