When a person in your family behaves in a manner that you percieve as not good and you want to correct that person it may be wise to choose your moment and not correct them right now.
To choose your moment means to wait until you can use it as a lesson on manners, group some other manners with it so as not to offend the person – don’t use the person as an example – but do teach the person with the other members of the family fully giving the impression that all are involved as they will be anyway because you want them to learn the lesson as well.
But the above is to not offend but to get the point across in the most positive manner and in a positive environment with people who are keen to learn, and not somebody who is held back from learning by being scolded and has put a fence around themselves mentally so as not to learn.
All the best from James Martin Sandbrook. Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 7:48:39 PM.