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Miss Manners: Please stop calling me ‘mom’!
I love being a mom, don’t get me wrong. And I love my sons. But this drives me bananas. I’m not these people’s mom!
Miss Manners: Why does the staff at my kids’ pediatrician office call me Mom?
Dear
Miss
Manners
: When I take my sons to the pediatrician or call to make an appointment, the receptionist or nurse always calls me Mom. I give them my name, but they never use it, and continue to call me Mom. I love being a mom, don’t get me wrong.
Miss Manners: I wish my child’s pediatrician, staff would use my name rather than just call me ‘Mom’
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Miss Manners: How can I get the receptionist to stop calling me ‘mom’?
There’s something about it that feels a little condescending, like I’m not a separate person from my children.
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Miss Manners: ‘I’ll have to get back to you’ may mean you lose out on an invitation
I invited a friend to a concert more than a month ahead of the performance. She said she'd have to get back to me. Two weeks ...
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Miss Manners: I invited a friend to a concert - she never replied. Do I tell her my son is going instead?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I invited my best friend to a concert more than a month ahead of the performance. She said she would have ...
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Miss Manners: Was I wrong to ask a man to remove his baseball cap at the theater?
I asked a man sitting in front of me at a college musical to remove his distracting baseball cap, which he did. My wife later ...
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Miss Manners: I asked a student to take off his hat at a play, but my wife says I’m an antique
Please send your questions to Miss Manners at missmanners.com, by email to
[email protected]
, or through postal mail ...
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Miss Manners: I like to give gifts, but never receive a ‘thank you’
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to someone who is questioning their own generosity ...
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Miss Manners: An uninvited vegan snooped in my refrigerator and insulted my cheese
Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email,
[email protected]
; or ...
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Miss Manners: Uninvited vegan guest judged my refrigerator contents
An uninvited, vegan plus 1 showed up to the letter writer’s dinner party and promptly criticized all the food.
Dear
Miss
...
East Bay Times
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Miss Manners: My uncle faces a ban from the wedding over jokes he now denies making
DEAR
MISS
MANNERS
: Some years ago, my uncle, having never met my then-boyfriend, made a series of racist jokes about ...
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Miss Manners: Was I rude to walk past the professor who was laying in the hallway?
On the way to class, I encountered a professor laying at the bottom of some steps. He was already being attended to and I was ...
Alaska Dispatch News
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Miss Manners: Stop calling me ‘Mom’
DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I take my sons to the pediatrician or call to make an appointment, the receptionist or nurse always ...
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Miss Manners: Do you give a baby shower present to someone who didn’t acknowledge your wedding gift?
So far, I have taken a deep breath, sent a gift and talked about them behind their backs -- like decent people do.
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