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I was listening to the “Scenarios” segment of the Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show yesterday, and Gee read a message from a new mom whose mother-in-law was on a Christmas visit that lasted way too long.

She got a little too comfortable, and started commenting on the daughter-in-law鈥檚 lifestyle:

“She kept commenting about how much money we waste. She criticized us for not doing more with our leftovers. Then she tried to show me how to reuse coffee filters instead of starting with a new one each day.”

Apparently, the mother-in-law is an environmentalist:

“She thinks we鈥檙e wrong for using disposal diapers. But the last straw was when she told us we don’t watch enough television to justify so many streaming services, and we should cut out what we don’t need and start saving for college.”

Yikes. Now 鈥� mother-in-law relationships have been awkward from the beginning. I鈥檓 pretty sure that at the Big Bang there was a mother-in- law saying, 鈥淒oes it have to be so loud?鈥�

But what we have here is a symptom of a much wider societal problem, which is that everybody now thinks they have to be a commentator 24/7.

And as a professional commentator, I鈥檓 here to say: 鈥淣o, you don鈥檛!鈥�

Especially if you鈥檙e doing it in person.

I鈥檝e been doing commentary since I was 15. But the one thing I have never done is deliver a commentary in person to a relative as others are watching.

The problem with in-person commentary is that when it鈥檚 over, you鈥檙e still physically standing there. You don鈥檛 have a spot break to go to, you don鈥檛 have Colleen standing by with a Daily Dose of Kindness 鈥� you鈥檙e like an actor at the end of a show wondering why the curtain hasn鈥檛 come down.

Fortunately, there鈥檚 an easy solution, and it鈥檚 to censor yourself.

And even if someone does solicit your advice, always double-check: 鈥淒o you REALLY want my advice?鈥� If the answer is “yes,” you say 鈥� “I鈥檒l call you later and we鈥檒l talk privately.”

Because as a general rule, it鈥檚 not just your in-laws who don’t want your advice 鈥� nobody wants your advice. Unless you have a medical degree, or you bought Amazon in 1997.

They may want your help 鈥� to re-boot the computer, oil a squeaky hinge, properly fold socks, do the Heimlich maneuver in a pinch …

But unless your daughter-in-law is the CEO of a company that鈥檚 been discharging PCBs into the water supply, don鈥檛 be judging her environmental habits, even if it鈥檚 your passion. Because if you’re worried about climate change, that’ll do it.

Which is very bad for the earth.

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