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When conflict-avoidant parents struggle to guide a confrontational child

My husband and I are both extremely conflict-avoidant and we've built this beautiful peaceful life together, but our 8-year-old is naturally confrontational and we have no idea how to parent someone so different from us without crushing their spirit.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Parents must learn to model and teach skills they themselves have never developed, while honoring a temperament foreign to their own.

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