How to Resolve Conflicts and Create Connection with Nonviolent Communication

Most parents must have encountered this situatioin at one time or another. Your child wants to do something, or play with something that is unsuitable or dangerous and when you try to stop them or take it away all hell breaks loose.

This is always one fo the biggest trials that any parent must face. Children will develop social competence and self confidence if they are provided with tolerance and praise for their positive actions. But parents always need to remain in charge.

A typical toddler can be told to stop doing what they are doing up to as much as 20 times in every hour. How would you like to be told what to do or what not to do once every three minutes?

Parents often need to assert control in order to prevent children from harming themselves or one another when they are only doing what comes naturally. Playing with knives, bashing brothers or sisters with toys and fighting are all examples of how children will test their boundaries to investigate the world in which they live.

Providing the child with alternatives can be an excellent way to enable them to continue to investigate and learn. For example, changing a metal knife for a plastic one might be all that is needed. Or let them find out how much it can hurt to be poked in the eye.

Alternatives don’t always work but they can provide an effective way to defuse a potentially explosive situation. The first thing to do is to acknowledge what the child is trying to achieve and then to introduce the alternative. Its then important to encourage the child to engage with the alternative by using it yourself and convincing the child that it is more interesting than whatever they were doing before.

There are goind to be many occasions when it isn’t possible or convenient to provide alternatives but these can provide a valuable lesson that the world has its limits. Distracting children from risking or potentially harmful behvior with interesting and engaging alternatives will help to reinforce parental authority and teach them that altermatives are often available.

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I recommend camping as a great way to bond with children, to provide them with freedom to investigate the world around them and engage with their parents or carers. But always remember to ensure safety by using the right camping equipment. You may like to take part in a bushcraft course where children will learn a variety of skills including how to handle a bushcraft knife, start a fire without matches and tracking skills.

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