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Teaching Kids Healthy Ways to Engage in Conflict Resolution [blogs.psychcentral.org]

 

By W. R. Cummings, PsychCentral, January 16, 2020.

Conflict resolution is HARD for me. In early adulthood, I tackled conflict with enough gusto to knock down an entire friend group. As I grew and matured, however, I somehow swung toward the opposite end of the pendulum. I suddenly started to struggle with confronting people at all, even when it was really important, because I was afraid of being a bulldozer. Instead, I built a habit of shoving my frustrations and hurt feelings down into my heart where they were left to either fester or die… all in the name of being “selfless” in friendships.

Doesn’t sound very healthy, does it? Even to my own ears, it doesn’t.

When I was pregnant with my first child, I made it my mission to teach my daughter how to express her feelings tactfully without gaining a fear of being honest. I never wanted her to overrun the people around her, but I also didn’t want her to think that being a good person meant never expressing discontentment or frustration. I wanted her to find her voice and feel confident enough to speak it.

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