Thanksgiving is once again around the corner, and the family is prepared to show their gratitude for each other well at least most of the family. Cousin MaryAnn, despite her adorable appearance, isn’t as adorable in her expression for gratitude. Luckily, she can get away with this  being as cute as she is, however, grandma is not tolerant of this at all. Any lack of gratitude from MaryAnn, and the idea of a peaceful Thanksgiving dinner is as good as impossible. With this conflict at hand, how would Uncle Larry and Aunt Velma help their daughter to be able to finally show how grateful she is?

Grateful for their background in psychology, Larry and Velma were not clueless in fixing MaryAnn’s poor manners. Unknowingly to MaryAnn, her parents were scheming to get her to be expressing thankfulness and manners. First, Larry and Velma had to identify what behavior MaryAnn desperately needs. Recognizing that her manners department is quite lacking, her parents decide to positively reinforce her usage of these manners, and knowing that MaryAnn loves candy, they’ll use it as an incentive to get her to start using her manners, regardless of the superficiality of the enforcement of the behavior, and not teaching it in such a way that she can grasp the idea and feelings behind gratitude, as long as they can get her to say “thank you” real soon because if anything else were to go wrong in the dysfunctional family with inherent problems from the context, at least they can avoid an angry grandma, maybe.