Dear Queenie,
I have a problem with my sister’s children. They tend to run around indoors and bump into things or trip over them and hurt themselves. I don’t let my children behave that way but my sister, their mother, thinks I’m being mean when I tell her children to behave better.
Queenie, don’t I have a right to set rules of behaviour in my own home?—Angry aunt
Dear Aunt,
Of course you do. And it is a good lesson for your nieces and/or nephews to learn – that there are different rules in different places. I am sure they will learn this as soon as they start school, if they have not started school already.
