Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

#522 10 Fights Worth Having With Your Kids

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Episode notes


Topics discussed in today's podcast:

  • Fights that parents have to have with their kids
  • Sleeping & eating
  • Friends, parties & sleepovers
  • Social media, alcohol & drugs, intimacy, pornography, dress
  • What matters is how we have the conflict
  • It's worth having a fight if their safety is at risk
  • How to have a conversation that doesn't lead to conflict
  • Justin's ladder metaphor
  • The relationship should always come first
  • It's not worth going to war over preferences
  • Preferences vs principles


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