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[quote=Anonymous]You do not have to invite this brother to stay in your house again. I would not, personally.

But it’s fine to say “in this house we do not hit other people” or curse, or smoke, or whatever your rules are. If people don’t want to adhere to the rules in your house, they don’t have to stay over.

Personally, I would tell my brother that my kids were upset seeing him hit his child and that can’t happen again in my home. If he thinks it’s ridiculous, he doesn’t have to come over again. But maybe it would cause him to reflect on what he’s doing and how it looks to other people, and whether he would like to have an alternative way of behaving. If he doesn’t, he doesn’t have to come in to your house. You’re not controlling his behavior. You’re simply controlling what you tolerate in your own home. I wouldn’t tolerate spanking, I wouldn’t tolerate people screaming obscenities, I wouldn’t tolerate people denigrating other people. It’s not impolite to insist on civilized behavior in your home. Doesn’t matter if they’re family or friends, or whatever.

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