What do I do if my child and I can't resolve our conflict?
Sometimes we need to go to another person to help us figure out what is a solution so it's a win-win. This is the point that it ends up being a win-win solution for you and for me. And when it's a win-win you've really resolved the conflict. A win-win may also be agreeing to disagree because in the modern way you don't have to have the rigidity of the old authoritarian it's my way or the high way. It's that this is a situation where I don't agree with you and you don't agree with me. We're going to agree to disagree and let it rest. If it's not an emergency, why not? People can have different values and different ways of thinking and doing things. If it's not something that's unsafe or something like that, okay. You have your point of view. I don't agree with you. In many families you have people who are from one political party versus another political party. You can agree to disagree on this stuff. I mean it kind of makes a rich kind of family life that we're not all exactly clones of each other. That's not what life is about.