Instead of seeing etiquette as a set of categorical rules, we should recognise that poor form can actually have good consequences, says writer Rachel Connolly ...

Discover the top 10 most-read Miss Manners columns of 2025, featuring advice from Judith Martin on etiquette, family ...

Have you ever wondered why some social rules feel unnecessarily stiff? Like you're following a script written for a different ...

The Wall Street Journal’s quiz on office manners stoked much debate and some grousing about what’s polite behavior in the ...

Some companies are acting preemptively. Delta Airlines is encouraging kindness between customers and employees with a “Centennial Cheer” program. It says it will recognize “100,000 acts of kindness” ...

In the James Cameron film “Titanic” there’s a brief scene in which a young girl gets poked in the back so that she’ll sit up straight, like a lady. Viewers are given to understand that they’re seeing ...

In general, we tend to be very much fixated on some more obvious areas of development such as academic excellence, skills in extracurricular activities, career success, social status and many more.

Members of Parliament in a fistfight after Speaker Moses Wetangula ruled on the Majority representation in the National Assembly. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] A debate has been raging over the conduct of ...

Etiquette experts agree that bringing a cellphone to the Thanksgiving table is the rudest. A good guest keeps conversations light and inclusive, avoiding controversial topics like politics. Arriving ...

America is seeing a decline in good manners in every facet of human interaction. We rarely see a gentleman hold a door for a lady. Nor do we hear people beg pardon when they accidentally bump into ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughters play competitive soccer. It is understood, and often in the rule book, that the parents of one team sit on one side of the field and the parents of the other team sit ...