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Step 1
The child stops believing in relationships and feels less comfortable in being at home and wants to spend most of his/her time outside with friends or otherwise. The child falls prey to bad habits like going to video parlors, smoking, drinking, gambling and becomes very aggressive.
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Step 2
I know of all these things because I have practically experienced it as a child, as my parents were not that compatible with one another and used to fight in front of us. We were four of us that is three sisters and one brother, my eldest sister was the one who had to face everything because rest of us were too young to understand the seriousness of the situation. Our sister protected all of us from the tensions at house and also paid attention on our studies. Now, though all of us are well settled and happily married but not every child is as lucky as we were as we had our sister to take care of us.
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Step 3
So, here are simple ways as to how one can avoid arguing in front of children.
Pick your battles. Decide if this argument is really worth having and what you hope to achieve out of it. Determine if a resolution is possible.
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Step 4
Avoid doing things to each other will result in an argument in front of kids. If you know that talking about finances result in an argument, save that talk for when the children are not around.
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Step 5
After an argument, apologise to each to each other in front of the children. Kids need to realise that even people who really love each other argue sometimes, but resolve them.
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Step 6
If you find yourself feeling angry about something then move away from the situation until you calm down. Let your spouse know that you'd like to finish the discussion later.
Comments
brendam said
on 1/25/2009 You make some very good points. Nice article!