How to avoid family drama this Christmas

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‘Tis the season for family fights! Family holiday gatherings are a disaster. Well, at least where I come from. There’s always this weird passive-aggressive undertone throughout the entire day, and you’re just waiting for someone to start a fight over something ridiculous like because someone put pilipili in all the kachumbari and Aunt Njeri doesn’t eat pilipili or whatever.

Before you know it, personalities clash, opinions are forced and ongoing disputes and rivalries are brought out. Tempers flare up. Everyone starts arguing and nobody is listening. The little children watch in horror as their parents spit out expletives. Then it all goes downhill from there and what was supposed to be a heartwarming and joyous time with family turns into a fracas.