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- From: kapa@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (k.a.perkins)
- Subject: Re: Things My Parents Did Right
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:27:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.052736.1485@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
- Summary: depends on how they fight
- References: <1egkrbINNppm@morrow.stanford.edu> <BxzCrw.LBv@inews.Intel.COM>
- Lines: 38
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- In article <BxzCrw.LBv@inews.Intel.COM>, vnoronha@dagwood.intel.com (Valerie Noronha) writes:
- >
- > In article <1egkrbINNppm@morrow.stanford.edu>,
- > CT.LVA@forsythe.stanford.edu (Linda Apperson) writes:
- > |> 2. Never yelled at each other, or argued, or criticized each other in
- > |> front of the kids.
- > |> >>
- > |> >>*Never?!* I think disagreement is only natural.
- > |> My folks never argued in front of the kids and as a result, none of
- > |> the four of us are any good at dealing with anger or disagreements.
- > |> We all tend to avoid them at any cost...from a deep seated belief
- > |> that "people who love each other don't fight". I wish I'd grown
- > |> up seeing that disagreements happen and can be resolved.
- >
- > I think it depends on how well the parents handle disagreements more than
- > an issue of whether or not to have them.
- < description of parents who set a bad example in the way they fought >
-
- I have to agree with Valerie here. My parents had disagreements, some
- in front of us and some that involved us, and we kids had disagreements
- with them, and *nothing* in those disagreements taught me anything
- positive about how to have a difference of opinion with someone else,
- or how to resolve such a difference except by giving in or having a
- temper tantrum until you got your way.
-
- However, you get to a point where you can't keep saying, "I am this
- (non optimum) way because of my parents." I have had several classes
- and read several books, mostly in connection with my job, on how to
- resolve conflicts in a positive way, where both parties come away
- with what they need out of a situation, or where they agree to disagree
- in a civilized way, without much wailing or gnashing of teeth, and I
- would recommend that people who don't like the way they resolve
- conflicts or deal with other issues, do something about it, whether
- it be to just decide that from this day forward you will be different,
- or read books/take classes to learn a new way, or ask others for
- help, like we do all of the time on the net.
-
- Kate Perkins
-