Billy Sticker argues parents should let kids see them disagree well. Children who watch healthy arguments learn that conflict is normal and manageable, not relationship-ending. Without this modeling, they struggle with disagreement in their own adult relationships.
I firmly believe that you should be able to argue in front of your kids. Some people disagree with that. Now, I'm not talking about screaming, I'm not talking about throwing things and yelling. If that's going on, if that's how you argue, there's deeper— there are some deeper issues there. But your kids need to know how to have a healthy disagreement. Amen. And how to resolve that. Because if not, what happens when they get married and they hopefully they don't have a disagreement? That's not going to happen. They have to know that this isn't the end, right? Like this, this is how things are.
