What if our kids resolved conflicts the way we do?
S arit describes “the big fight” this way:
“Yehuda was taking our two-year-old son to the bathroom. I just offered him a little tip on how to keep everything clean in there and he suddenly lost it — he spent the next five hours following me around the house criticizing me insulting me saying horrible things. It was our worst fight ever.”
Yehuda describes “the big fight” this way:
“Here I am being a really good father taking my kid to the bathroom so my wife can relax for a few minutes over her coffee. What do I get for that? ‘Yehuda don’t do this and don’t do that’ — the usual. She’s constantly telling me what to do when to do it and how to do it. Anything that I don’t do her way is wrong. Personally I think she babies the kids way too much.
“We’ve had so many fights about this that we recently agreed that Sarit should remove herself when I’m doing a parenting task. But she refused to do what she was supposed to. So there she is telling me how to get my son on and off the toilet and I quietly remind her that she’s not supposed to be watching me. She won’t let up so I close the bathroom door with her on the other side.
