Miss Manners: Criticizing someone’s kids can be a minefield, but what if that ‘someone’ is your husband?

If we have dinner at the home of one of my stepsons, we contribute food. If we go out to dinner, we always pay.

Miss Manners: Criticizing someone’s children can be a minefield. What do I do?

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Miss Manners: Your annoyance at a child in public has an easy solution, why didn’t you think of it?

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Miss Manners: I confronted a family about their noisy child at the supermarket

DEAR MISS MANNERS: In a supermarket, I had a conversation with the family of a very noisy child, about 6 years old. I ...

Miss Manners: The store manager berated me after my run-in with a noisy child

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Miss Manners: I want to sit with the fun kids but not hurt my boring friend’s feelings

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Miss Manners: Everybody says I just need to find the right woman. I did. She died.

Many wax lyrical about the joys of marriage, claiming I am wasting my life and missing out by not having children. Nieces and ...