Teach your Child to Avoid Conflicts
It is very normal for children to collide, just as it is normal for adults to collide.
Conflict is a way for a child to show that he or she disagrees with a condition or situation and that he or she wants something to change. As a reaction, conflict is desirable because it shows that the child has an opinion, that he has his own choices, and that he claims them. Claiming is an important skill in the life of the individual so that he strives to protect himself and his rights, as well as to gain what he considers to belong to him in life.
When are conflicts negative?
Conflicts are considered negative when they occur in an unacceptable social way, when they violate the rights of others or when they endanger the individual. That is, when they manifest themselves through the use of physical, verbal, or psychological violence and when the goal concerns the unreasonable claiming of demands. If, for example, the child demands to watch TV for much longer than the parent considers permissible for his age and to achieve this, he starts throwing or breaking objects, or hitting. Other examples are cases where the child insists on becoming his own without the desire for compromise, when he curses or threatens, when he holds hands with other children, when he stubbornly…
