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 ...

Miss Manners: How can I keep other people’s phones from my immunocompromised husband?

What is a polite way to avoid touching his phone and to stop this activity? I think we should just say, “No thanks.” ...
Anchorage Daily News

Miss Manners: Pass the phone, pass the germs

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend of ours constantly passes his cellphone around our dinner table to share photos. My husband is immunocompromised, and so we are careful of germ exposure. We don’t want to ...

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 ...