"Shay" <sha### [at] nonenone> wrote in message news:4793698e@news.povray.org...
> Tom Galvin wrote:
> > Shay wrote:
> >>
> >> Excellent. I need to find some pretext to have a long talk with
> >> my niece(13yo) about bad social habits.
> >
> > YMMV but I found repeated short conversations more effective at
> > that age.
>
> Don't know many teenagers, but I think it depends on one's relationship 
> with the kid. In a way, we're fairly close. I knew her parents before she 
> was born and rented a room from them when my niece was a baby. She was 
> calling me "Uncle Shay" before I had even met her aunt. On the other hand, 
> I'm not an uncle to her like my uncles were to me.[1] My uncles had nearly 
> as much authority over me as my parents. They could pull off preaching to 
> me.
>

I had that type of relationship with some of my uncles as well.  I remember 
having at least a couple long talks with 2 of them in particular 
(individually).  I could talk to them about things I would never mention to 
my parents.  In fact, I believe that my life probably would be quite 
different if I hadn't had those few long conversations.

I can't believe that it's been about 20 years since I was a teenager.  Now 
I'm older than my uncles were then, but they still seem much wiser.  :-)

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