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Monday question: Granny eats shoots & leaves
If you dare to suspect that I only chose this week's question for the headline opportunity it provided, well! -- I am horribly offended. At any rate, how would you answer this week's question?
I'll post my response on Friday. Tune in during the week for various findings in and musings about social behavior, and join us for a chat this Wednesday. It's not too early to start worrying about the holidays, you know!How does one handle uninvited foragers? There is a grandmother in my neighborhood who takes care of her preschool aged grandson. I see them together often, she pushing the stroller, or the two of them walking around the block. Lately, their walks have started to include entering other people's front yards to pick items such as mushrooms. I have not seen them do this with my yard, yet.I'm nearly certain that the woman has not been invited onto the other's property. The whole thing makes me uncomfortable, and I disagree with the message that it sends to the child (that it is OK to forage on other's property without permission). Should I say anything, or address the situation only if I see her on my property?
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Welcome to Miss Conduct’s blog, a place where the popular Boston Globe Magazine columnist Robin Abrahams and her readers share etiquette tips, unravel social conundrums, and gossip about social behavior in pop culture and the news. Have a question of your own? Ask Robin using this form or by emailing her at missconduct@globe.com.
Welcome to Miss Conduct’s blog, a place where the popular Boston Globe Magazine columnist Robin Abrahams and her readers share etiquette tips, unravel social conundrums, and gossip about social behavior in pop culture and the news. Have a question of your own? Ask Robin using this form or by emailing her at missconduct@globe.com.
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Robin Abrahamswrites the weekly "Miss Conduct" column for The Boston Globe Magazine and is the author of Miss Conduct's Mind over Manners. Robin has a PhD in psychology from Boston University and also works as a research associate at Harvard Business School. Her column is informed by her experience as a theater publicist, organizational-change communications manager, editor, stand-up comedian, and professor of psychology and English. She lives in Cambridge with her husband Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, and their socially challenged but charismatic dog, Milo.
Who is Miss Conduct?
Robin Abrahamswrites the weekly "Miss Conduct" column for The Boston Globe Magazine and is the author of Miss Conduct's Mind over Manners. Robin has a PhD in psychology from Boston University and also works as a research associate at Harvard Business School. Her column is informed by her experience as a theater publicist, organizational-change communications manager, editor, stand-up comedian, and professor of psychology and English. She lives in Cambridge with her husband Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, and their socially challenged but charismatic dog, Milo.
