DEAR MISS MANNERS: Our daughter is finishing kindergarten and will start first grade in the fall. Neither the school nor our family are celebrating this milestone with a graduation or in any way ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was on a flight and sitting in the aisle seat. The middle seat and window seat were occupied by strangers. The plane had landed, and people were standing in the aisle waiting for ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Our daughter is finishing kindergarten and will start first grade in the fall. Neither the school nor our family is celebrating this milestone with a graduation or in any way ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Our daughter is finishing kindergarten and will start first grade in the fall. Neither the school nor our family are celebrating this milestone with a graduation or in any way ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When my children were growing up, we were close friends with another family. Both families taught the children old-fashioned respect for their elders and expected them to call ...

Stereotypical etiquette expectations and “manners” are social constructs that don’t always spark unity in the ways we expect. For example, ideas like “respect your elders” have fed generations of ...