Social Insensitivity

Why is it that people are very sensitive when it comes to general public but when it comes to their own family, they  forget to be the same. I know it is family and we should have no qualms about how we behave with them but I think there should be boundaries of some sort. I believe that people need to realize that their families have feelings and sometimes they can be hurtful to them.

You would never call someone fat in public but you do not think twice about doing it to someone in your family. You will probably do it repeatedly. If you constantly harp on it in to someone in your family, it is going to affect a persons self esteem. I know the family is trying to be helpful and trying to egg the person to do something. I don't have a problem with the criticism, I have a problem with the method used to deliver it. If it is given in the form of positive reinforcement then it is justified but if it is given in the form of jokes then after some time it should be stopped.

That is one example but there are a multitude of others where family should think before they say something. Sometimes you do not want to hear the constant negative chatter. In the end it is just going to affect relationships because no one likes someone picking on them constantly. 

Some people have a tendency to think nothing of the others and are on a constant mission to improve others.  The others might be perfectly fine the way they are but it doesn't matter. No one needs to be told that everything they have learnt in life is wrong and the way they have been doing things is also wrong. It just a matter of employing some sensitivity. If someone is wrong, learn to use some tact instead of telling them you are wrong and you do not know anything. Everyone needs some social sensitivity, be it the general public or your own family.