They are on stage. Let's set personal stuff aside and get to work. Eliminate Special Treatment . Treat each other as nonfamily employees. Some fathers, in an effort to avoid favoritism, are harder on their children than they are on other employees.
Some family members get a free ride.
This is worse yet for the company. Some families huddle together by themselves in an office, something usually interpreted by the rest of the company as an exclusive club or something to gossip about. Something bad is being discussed. Some families shy away from saying something that the rest of the company is aching to say, something obvious about a family member's performance that simply needs to be dealt with. Were it about a nonfamily employee, things would be said and handled appropriately.