Maybe it's just that you don't know how to use social courtesy.

Oh, that's old-fashioned.

Watch how Lizzie Post and...

...act as host and hostess.

They know that courtesy means showing respect, thinking of the other person,

real friendliness. Hello! And welcome to awesome etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette

through the lens of consideration, respect, and honesty. On today's show, we take your questions

on classroom party participation, a meet-the-surrogate party, dinner plate decisions, and how to address a patient when calling from a doctor's office.

Four awesome etiquette community members, our question of the week is about how to handle gifts for a joint sibling birthday party where you only know one sibling. Plus, your most

excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on top table manners for kids. All that's

coming up. Awesome etiquette comes to you from the studios of our home offices in Vermont and is

proud to be produced by the Emily Post Institute.

I'm Lizzie Post. And I'm Dan Post Sending. How are you, cuz?

I'm well. I'm feeling pretty good in the middle of the month of February here.

I had the funniest like work, life, like circle connection. Okay, not the funniest, but when you're an

etiquette author, you geek out on where etiquette shows up in your life. And let's hear it. You

and I had posted to the Thursday substack a list of top 10 table manners for kids. And I chose over the weekend,

in addition to watching the Super Bowl, because that's when we're recording this,

to watch Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the series that was done on Amazon Prime. And there was a moment in that series where this put together because they are spies on the

same mission couple absolutely tears into each other's table manners.

And it crack, I swear, Dan, I wish I had called you in the moment, but I realized that

would have been ridiculous.

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