What is the best way to handle an argument with your spouse over your children? I am sure most couples have varying opinions on the way their children should be disciplined, the activities they are allowed to do, etc.

How do you handle this?

    

I'm a single mother so I have no experience in this area. However, if family members bring up that they want my son to x,y,z and it does not fall in line with how I want to raise him, I'll listen to their point of view for validity and maybe incorporate it with my belief. Or I'll just raise him how I choose. But I do try to see their side of it.

Thank you for your opinion as always esper! I like to hear the input of others, sometimes those looking from the outside in can give great suggestions. Luckily my husband and I don’t argue to much about raising our daughter, I am just waiting for it though.

Here is what I teach my parents in my weekly coaching tele-seminars, it is very common for moms and dads to attach each other and work against each other when it comes to kids. Why? Because one may feel differently about a situation than the other parent and this causes conflict. This is normal and there is nothing wrong with feeling different about different situations, however in order to be affective parents, decrease arguments and prevent your kids from working you both against each other, you have to set boundaries.

What this means, is set a time for you and your partner to sit down and talk about what differences you have and what you feel differently about. You and your partner will need to find a happy medium that will allow you to meet in the middle and be on the same page.

This will not only decrease fights between you and your spouse, but it will also show your children that mom and dad are on the same page.

Good luck!

Coach Ann
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