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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When family visits your home, which household rules do you think are appropriate to ask guests (including relatives) to follow? How do you handle it when your family’s parenting style or values differ?

Minor things, like asking guests to take off their shoes, feel easy to enforce. The same goes for big, clear boundaries, such as not bringing a gun into the house. But what about the gray areas?

For example, my husband and I don’t allow spanking, but my brother spanked his child during a recent visit, which really upset our kids. Would you say something in the moment, ask that discipline be handled privately, or insist that your house rules apply to everyone while they’re in your home? Or take another approach entirely? My husband leans toward talking to my brother before the next visit, while I tend to avoid confrontation...so I’m curious how others handle situations like this.[/quote]

You can't tell another parent how to discipline their child and unless he is actually beating the child it is none of your business.[/quote]

+100

As for house rules… if we are talking about other adults, I can’t really think of any. It’s pretty rude to try to control the behavior of other adults unless there’s some strange circumstance where they’re breaking your stuff or something.  No smoking or drugs in my house, obviously, but this has never remotely been an issue with any guest I’ve had. [/quote]

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