Learn how to handle conflict
Did you know that you can support your child’s growth and development if you:
Learn how to handle conflict
Why is this important to you and your child?
It helps with your child's communication and Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Children watch and learn from your behaviour and actions. Learning how to handle conflict in a positive, stress-reduced way will teach children skills they can carry and use through life.
Things you can do
- Take yourself out of situations when it gets heated
- Take the time to reflect and calm down before responding
- Plan to have difficult conversations when the children are not at home
- Show your child how to make up after a disagreement, teach them how to repair relationships and apologise.
- Take time to play and interact with your child to repair relationship
- Know that if someone in your household is exerting control over you psychologically, physically, sexually, financially, or emotionally, it may be a sign of domestic abuse. Speak to someone you trust immediately.
- If you feel low or not okay for 14 days in a row, speak to your GP.
- Learning mindfulness techniques can help with your response to conflict situations
If you’d like support, talk to
- Your GP
- Health Visitors
- Your local Family Hub
- Your child’s nursery
- Maternal Mental Health Support Services
Other support available in Coventry
- Positive Parenting Team
- Coventry Information Directory - Domestic Abuse Support
- Relate - Coventry and Warwickshire
- MAMTA - Child & Maternal Health Programme for BME Women in Coventry or call 024 7663 7693