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A young boy looks sad and frustrated while sitting apart from his parents, who are engaged in a tense discussion, illustrating challenges in disciplining kids in blended families.

Blended Families: Finding Common Ground in Disciplining Your Children

In blended families, conflicts often run deeper than the surface issues. Letting go of the past and establishing trust through open communication is vital to building a healthy marriage and family.

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What is Dialogue? How to Talk About Abortion

During my freshman year of college, I experienced for the first time the intense emotions provoked by saying the words, “pro-life.” While walking to class, I told my classmate about my new coworker, saying, “I don’t know much about him, but I know we’re both pro-life.” This innocent, perceptive statement opened the floodgates of emotion in …

A couple sitting on a bench by the water, forming a heart shape with their hands, symbolizing the impact of marriage help in rekindling love and connection.

Seeking Marriage Help Leads to Restoration

One couple learned to restore the joy in their relationship with a visit to the National Institute of Marriage.

A young husband and wife argue on a couch. Here's a a practical process of healthy conflict resolution in marriage.

Healthy Conflict Resolution in Marriage

If your approach to conflict resolution is going nowhere, you may need a heart change. Try these five ideas.

Violence among girls signals a time to teach strength without aggression

Is Your Daughter A Mean Girl?

Some are calling this breed the “New American Girl.” She’s more physical, not afraid to be aggressive or go after what she wants, and she takes care of herself.

Sharing toys is a learned skill

Sharing Toys

Encourage your children to share their belongings with others.

The holidays can be filled with family and some conflict

Handling Holiday Conflict with Family

Walk through tough holiday times with your children to show them how to handle conflict between extended family.

After the “Family-moon”: Tips For Blended Families

Most couples in a second marriage could use some expert help right from the start. Counseling provides guidance and the kind of insight that’s often difficult to muster on your own.

mother and daughter walking on the beach together

Tips for Dealing With Personality Clashes

Here are seven ideas for keeping the right perspective, even when your child is driving you nuts.

Avoid bitterness with the gift of forgiveness

Avoid Bitterness By Finding Forgiveness

It is dangerous for you when you don’t choose to forgive others.

Interethnic couple smiling at the camera

Marriage in the Melting Pot

As inter-ethnic marriages continue to increase, this trend holds tremendous promise for marriages that can transform differences into assets rather than succumb to them as liabilities.

The reactive cycle of arguments. This couple sitting outside arguing

Breaking The Reactive Cycle

Someone just “pushed your buttons” and you’re ready to push back. That’s the Reactive Cycle. But is there a better way to handle conflict?

Serious-looking young girl in yellow dress pointing her finger in the air, like she’s wagging it in disapproval

Discipline Is Worth the Effort

Your kids will feel most secure if they know you have set appropriate boundaries for them that you aren’t afraid to enforce.

A young wife and husband sit in their dim restaurant after hours, looking at a report of their business that they are running together. Running a business requires humility, wisdom, and compromise. Could marriage partners also be business partners?

Can Spouses Work Together As Business Partners?

Running a business, just like marriage, requires humility, wisdom, and compromise. Here some key principles to guide you if you and your spouse run a small business together.

This advice for in-laws can keep great relationships with married children, like this photo of an elderly couple with their married children illustrates.

Advice for In-Laws to Avoid Conflict with Married Children

Healthy in-law relationships contribute to the success of marriage.

A young couple in a kitchen talking to their in-laws. Controlling in-laws trying to run your life is a difficult challenge.

What If In-Laws Try to Run Our Lives?

Relating to controlling in-laws is one of the trickiest problems a marriage can face. If you believe your in-laws are trying to run your life, the following principles might help.

A young couple looking to resolve a conflict in their marriage. The man tries to explain as the wife covers her face in frustration.

How to Resolve Conflict in Marriage

How do you resolve conflict in marriage? Consider these eight strategies based on God’s design for effective conflict resolution.

An angry young couple sit on a couch engaged in a heated argument.

What Does the Bible Say about Fighting in Marriage?

It’s normal to have conflict — and it’s unavoidable. According to the Bible, what matters most is how you handle the fighting in your marriage.

A mother-in-law welcomes her daughter and her husband into her home.

The Laws of In-Laws

Many couples wait until they are so frustrated with their in-laws that they lash out with harsh and condemning words and fracture the relationship. But when we speak with respect, we are likely to get respect.

What is the disability rights movement?

Disability Rights Movement

Disability rights movement is a civil rights movement advocating for those with disabilities to have equal rights.