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 on the other side.

GENTLE READER: Oh, good manners have left the playing field entirely. Because those would dictate that parents can be trusted to sit together at a sporting event of school-aged children without ...

The league requires parents of each team to sit on opposite sides of the field. When they don't, things can get ugly.

In my opinion, these are the reasons we have the rules that parents sit on different sides in the first place!

Soccer parents writes that supporters of the other team broke decorum, then started causing trouble at a game. Plus, how to ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughters play competitive soccer. It is understood, and often in the rule book, that the parents of ...

Is there something I can say to encourage them to sit on their own side during the game, or do good manners dictate that I ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughters play competitive soccer. It is understood, and often in the rule book, that the parents of ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughters play competitive soccer. It is understood, and often in the rule book, that the parents of ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to handling parents who sit on the wrong side during ...

My daughters play competitive soccer. It is understood, and often in the rule book, that the parents of one team sit on one ...

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 ...