Mind your own damn manners.

When we consider having manners a virtue, we exclude social classes that weren’t in on the arbitrary rule-making process.

We set out to write an article on good manners for kids: when parents can reasonably expect them, and how to instill them. But as we reflected on what that list of good manners might be, we started to question 

If you’ve got any humans in the house under the age of 18, you’ve probably wondered what you did to deserve food all over the floor, gaping full mouths, and all kinds of other shenanigans at the table… rather than 

At age 12, I watched Pretty Woman and realised two things: Men with white hair were not necessarily old, and salespeople could be mean to you, just because you didn’t dress or look right. Since Richard Gere was unlikely to 

Peals of laughter from my son usually make me laugh, too. This is true for all mothers, I imagine. But last month, for the first time, I found myself frowning at my son’s laughter. I found him laughing at someone