Read Proverbs 15:1  Which would you like?  Peace and quiet at home or anger and fighting?  I would like things at my house to be calm and peaceful.  So, if you have peace or fighting at your house, it depends on what you do.  Our verse says that if someone at your house says something to you, you have a choice.  You can be nice to them or you can be mean to them.  If you are nice, they will be nicer.  But if you are cranky to them, they will probably get cranky to you right back.  When someone is having a bad day and you are nice to them, they usually calm down and get a little bit nicer.  But if someone is having a bad day and you are smart right back at them, they may even get angrier because of your sharp answer.  With our smart answers, we keep each other in a bad mood.  So, the choice is up to you.  You can help someone to get nicer with a soft answer or you can keep someone stirred up with a sharp answer.