[straysweeper]

Thank you ns123!

I am somewhat confused by how I should treat children of others, especially when I prefer to be very direct and open. However, as they are children from anywhere between toddlers to teenagers, it is hard for me to decern which information i should or shouldn't pass on. That said.

The truth is, that I have confused the question. I've thought that by intervening I'm telling her how to raise her kids, but in truth it is that I feel they aren't at a level to see what is going on, or caught in a vicious cycle neither of them knowing how to get out. Now I know they may never aspire to the level that I will, but some basic things are overlooked and I have felt that by intervening when things are bad it is as though I'm trying to tell them how to live. I have been afraid to do what I believe is right. I need to do it in a way to show them that things are bad, and that they can do better without it looking like a direct personal attack.