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- From: mhn@cs.brown.edu (Marian H. Nodine)
- Subject: Re: Things My Parents Did Right
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.210010.2488@cs.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1egkrbINNppm@morrow.stanford.edu> <BxzCrw.LBv@inews.Intel.COM>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:00:10 GMT
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- In article <BxzCrw.LBv@inews.Intel.COM> vnoronha@dagwood.intel.com (Valerie Noronha) writes:
-
- (concerning when or whether to argue in front of your kids)
-
- >I think it depends on how well the parents handle disagreements more than
- >an issue of whether or not to have them. ...
- >
- >If a couple does decide to argue in front of a child, I think it is important
- >for both parties to set up groundrules (i.e. no swearing, loud voices,
- >insults) beforehand and stick to them. ...
-
- I agree wholeheartedly with this. I grew up in a home where conflict
- was avoided at all costs. I never really got a concept of how to resolve
- conflict until well into my marriage -- fortunately not quite too late --
- but things have been tooling along *much* better since we figured this out.
-
- I have two kids, almost 2 and almost 5, and I have no idea what they have
- learned by observing Mark and I when we conflict. Fortunately both
- Mark and I are fairly even-tempered, even under some extremee circumstances.
- And if things start to get too bad one of us will take a walk while the
- other watches the kids, and we try again later. And the kids have seen
- us resolve the conflicts, too, which I think is very good for them.
-
- The only two types of conflict we really don't discuss in front of our
- kids concern either sex or disciplining the kids. One of them is kind
- of personal, the other I think detrimental to presenting a united front
- with respect to parenting.
-
- -- Misty
-
-