5 Lessons Your Kids Learn Every Time You and Your Spouse DISAGREE

4. We give our kids a healthy glimpse into how to appropriately and respectively handle conflict.
As parents, we sometimes have disagreements that deal with issues that are too mature in nature for our kids to hear.  We must be mindful of this and save those discussions for when we have privacy.  We should NEVER discuss our marital problems with our kids.  This is something that we need to work through with our spouse and possibly with a marriage counselor, if needed.

Our kids do not need to bear the burden or worry about grown up issues.  So, if you and your spouse find yourselves in a heated disagreement or discussing something that is too mature for your kids, it is wise to save these conversations for a time (in the near future) when the kids are not present.

Conflict is part of life…especially when you and your spouse are in the trenches of raising kids.  Our kids need to experience us working through our own issues through healthy discussion, lots of humility, mutual respect, and of course, forgiveness.