Miss Manners: How do we respond to friends asking when our next vacation is, if we don’t want them to join us?

But if you forget, or run into a similar problem with someone else -- and phone-passing has become a widespread nuisance of ...

Miss Manners: I’m trying not to look like a weirdo when he hands me his phone

But if you forget, or run into a similar problem with someone else — and phone-passing has become a widespread nuisance of our time — Miss Manners suggests you simply stand up, go to your husband and ...

Should kids at least do a little bit of school work over the holidays?

The short answer: a light touch is plenty. Researchers have studied the idea school students have some degree of “summer learning loss” for more than 100 years. But more recent research, such as a ...