do you fight in front of your child/ren?

United States
November 30, 2006 9:07pm CST
My husabnd and I try very hard not to fight in front of our kids. We do every thing that we can even bit our toungs. There are a few times when we have started to fight but then we stop. I don't like my kids to hear us fighting. i think kids need to fell safe and hearing thier parents yelling at each other does not make them fell safe. They do know that we dis agree but we do not yelled at each other.
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@LadyLudie (359)
• Philippines
2 Dec 06
What you are doing is right,but means lot of sacrifices.If accidentally your children have caught you in the act of that situation,then you must be prepared for some explainations they will believe.Be careful.If you can hold yourself and control yelling with each other,avoid this things even not in front of your children,so you will be used of it. If not so bad or just nonesense avoid discussions and yelling.Instead discuss good things,only practice and control,the result is happiness.
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• United States
2 Dec 06
We do try not to yell even when the kids are in the bed for the night. Now not get me wrong my husband and I do not fight very often I say least than once a month do we fight.
@alchemistrx (2547)
• Philippines
2 Dec 06
You shouldn't fight in front.I was traumatize when my parents were fighting in front of me. The consequence could be that your child would not approach you anymore because they might feel unsafe if they go near to you.
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• United States
2 Dec 06
I agree that they may fell unsafe around you if they hair you yelling.
@Meljep (1666)
• United States
2 Dec 06
It's not a good idea to fight in front of children. In todays world of divorce and abuse it does cause children to be afraid, or angry. Remember that people will listen closer to a lower voice than a loud one. You can always tune out someomne who is yelling.
• United States
2 Dec 06
That is so true about about listening to a lower voice closer than a loud one.
• Canada
1 Dec 06
I agree with you. My husband and i try very hard not to argue infront of our son, And there have been times when despite all our efforts it just happens. Our son who is only 2, ususaly tell us to stop it and it makes us realize we really dont need to have this discussion infront of him, I totaly agree. dont fight infront of the kids.
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• United States
1 Dec 06
That makes me fell better to know that i am not the only one who slips from time to time. We try very hard but we are not perfect so it is a area that we will contuioly work on th rest of our lives.
@malsun (1528)
• United States
2 Dec 06
we try not to fight infront of the kid.
• United States
2 Dec 06
Thank you
@caymann (29)
• United States
1 Dec 06
One of the worst things parents can do is to fight before the children.... This must be avoided at any cost!
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• United States
2 Dec 06
I agree it is the worse thing that you can do.
@jaginfo2006 (1757)
• India
1 Dec 06
that the worst thing you can do.
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• United States
2 Dec 06
I agree
@istanto (8548)
• Indonesia
1 Dec 06
You are doing right. dont ever fight infront of you children. it can be affect they live. im not married yet but I will not fight in front of my children someday.
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• United States
1 Dec 06
it is good that you plain on not fighting in front of your children when you do have kids.
@rawpoet (2046)
• United States
1 Dec 06
Great topic, floramwaters! I'm a single mother now, but when I was married, we fought an awful lot. He even became physically abusive. Nothing like your child's first two word sentence being "FU". I'm so glad it's over. It's been 5 years now, and I probably won't be marrying again until the kids graduate, which is another 6 years. It's great to hear you're on top of it, but know we can only do our best, and apologizing to our children for our actions teaches them a lot.
• United States
1 Dec 06
Thank youfor your reply. You are right children do learn by our actions. It is our job as thier parents to teach them right from wrong. I am sorry that you and your children had to go though a abusive time. hopefully they will learn from you that, that is not ok to act lie that.
@metong (655)
• Philippines
2 Dec 06
sometimes, but most of the time we see to it that we will not fight in front of our kids.
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@kaspyv (1011)
• United States
1 Dec 06
IN A PERFECT WORLD THERE WOULD BE NO FIGHTING AMONG FAMILIES...but as we all know the world isn't perfect, not even close. Fighting in front of your children only hurts them as well as teaches them that its ok to fight. They will always be afraid for each of their parents, knowing that someday one of them may hurt the other. things like this are very seldom forgotten by children and has a devastating effect on them. You should try to never let your kids see or even hear you arguing.Sometimes they even think its their fault that you argue...how sad is that??
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• United States
1 Dec 06
You are right when parents fighht in front of the children, they blame themselfs for he fighting. In fact they are not always the reason for the disagreement. There are times when we do disagreee with something that the other one was doing with the children. But 90% of the disagreement are not involved with the children.
@hazeter (670)
• Philippines
1 Dec 06
Well for me, if u are parents who has kids it is important not to shout with each other infornt of kids specially if your kids are still very young coz they might follow what they well see.
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• United States
1 Dec 06
You are right children do learn buy what they see. I don't want my children to grow up to be yellers and this is not good fr them, thier furture spouse and children.
• Canada
1 Dec 06
We try really hard not to fight infront of our daughter, but sometimes we end up fighting anyways. She's only 10 months old, but even at this age I can tell it upsets her. Even if we're not yelling at eachother she definitely feels the tension and will start crying. My parents fought infront of me alot when I was growing up and I remember how terrible it used to make me feel. I don't want to do the same thing to my daughter.
• United States
1 Dec 06
It is good that you want to try to change. You don't want you kids to grow up in the same envorment that you did.
@vinaykant (812)
• India
1 Dec 06
i am not married and i dont have child. But i think its very bad to fight in front of childs.
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• United States
1 Dec 06
At least you know what you want to do why you do have children.
• United States
1 Dec 06
we have done so, but not often and not ugly fighting
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@rohit89 (1967)
• India
1 Dec 06
i not married yet .....but it has very bad effect on ur child as far as i know .....u shld try to syop it.....atleast shld avoid that infront of them.. have a nice day
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• United States
2 Dec 06
No , I grew up in a family where my dad was constantly yelling and I promised myself that my children would never experiance that. It was hard on me when I was younger and no child should be exposed to that. On occasion well bicker but not yell.
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@leilani47 (780)
• United States
1 Dec 06
It's not too healthy to be fighting in front of children. Children learn from everything that they see and hear. Most of the time, children just hear yelling and screaming, and they think that they are arguing about them, which puts them in a bad frame of mind. People think that it's ok to argue in front of children to teach them that it's ok to disagree. I don't agree with that either! Arguing in front of children brings a lot of tension!
• Pakistan
1 Dec 06
i m not married yet but i think so that parents never try to quarrel in front of their kids. it will give the adverse effects towards the childrens and give him a wrong thought about their parents so keep your child safe never try to fight not only in front of kids as well as other. always try to comprise with each other thnx.
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• United States
2 Dec 06
Fighting in front of my child was one of the reasons my husband and I are no longer together and to this day I try not to fight in front of her be it with friends, family, or anyone. I don't think it is good to set that kind of example in front of children espcially because they pick up and mimic what they are hearing. The last thing I want is for my daughter to go to daycare yelling and scolding because that is what she hears on a daily basis :(
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