"Things don't have to be perfect. I'm not going to scream at you if you don't set the table just right. Making it look like something out of a magazine, getting everybody oohing and aahing over how pretty it is, isn't the goal here. Family time is. You participate because you're part of the family, not because you're my servant. You're more valuable to me than my public image is. Besides, you're still a child. I don't expect you to do as good a job at that sort of thing as I would if I were doing it."