Children benefit from the environment you establish. By example you can teach your children many of these important skills:

• To recognize conflict as normal. It is an opportunity to build a new sense of community and connectedness.
• To honor all feelings and use the energy of anger and fear to work out problems fairly and safely.
• To resist using competitions and judgments to separate or reject others.
• To trust personal intuition and use it to guide oneself and others toward nonviolence.
• To resist using punishments to correct problems, but to focus on another's' strengths.
• To listen for the needs behind a conflict with our partners and to work together to solve problems.
• To use one's head and heart to build fair resolutions.
• To teach that no one is safe unless everyone is safe. —Barbara Oehlberg

Source

Barbara Oehlberg, Making It Better: Activities for Children Living in a Stressful World*

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