Sometimes you see your kids fighting over a toy and you don’t know what happened before you got to the fight. You don’t know who should get the toy. For those times, you can try having them play rock-paper-scissors or have them flip a coin…
Children fight because they often don’t have the vocabulary or skills to negotiate conflict. They also have a harder time calming themselves down to use those skills in the heat of the fight. If they have ways to cope with conflict in their mind beforehand, they…