You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.