Host
Karen Harold, aka “The Conflict Coach”, returns!

Our program focus is to give educate, encourage, and support callers
with a variety of issues revolving around personal and professional
conflict. Unraveling Conflict allows real conversation about real
issues of conflict, anger, stress, and relationships. We also share and
uncover strategies for healing and growth.

As a family law mediator, I
see first hand the devastation poor conflict resolution has in divorces
and family breakdown. Let’s talk about proactive and productive
approaches to embrace healing, encourage better parenting, and focus on
moving forward.

Unresolved workplace conflict can have equally
destructive results, so strategy building and implementation is
necessary to see change take place.

If you have any questions about our program or want to send in a topic
for discussion, email coaching@conflictcoachingco.com.

This show is for and about you! Karen

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The
topic of relationship and marriage is hitting home in the most
unexpected ways.  I am trying to maintain positive attitude and pray
for success in what is clearly and statistically discouraging
territory…all this while trying to provide the support and
encouragement needed and face my own challenges and struggles.  It is
not an easy feat.

So
I’m praying, researching, reading, and reconciling what may happen. We
don’t know what tomorrow may bring.  Nevertheless, I’ve found some
interesting information, and I’ve got a lot of reading to do.

Look Before You Leap
Christian Advice for the Real World
Divorced & Dating

I’ve had some indepth, tense, and powerful discussions on this topic. 



As a
mother, I do believe in my capabilities to raise all of my children as
respectful, responsible, and reasonable people.  I take offense to
being told that because of my gender I cannot
teach my boys how to be men.  I can instruct them not only with my
nuturing and love, but by providing mature men of honor and integrity
to model for them what and who they can become. 



I don’t
see how some men believe that based on gender only that they qualify to
be better parents for their boys than mothers.  The same is true for
moms and girls.  I know some dads that are better caregivers and
nurturers.  I’ve also seen mothers who are so dedicated to provide
their children with well-rounded experience and values and have
provided much more of a positive impact than the fathers. 



So is a
man who lies, cheats, is disrespectful, irresponsible, lacks
accountability and integrity model material for boys?  Do they really
teach and represent what is means to be a “man”?  Is
that what kind of men we want to create?  Is that what we want to teach
our boys?  Good Lord, I hope not.  Are they really better than a mother
who provides more stability, instruction, discipline, and love?  I
don’t think so.  Are all situations the same – of course not. 



What
should be important is the recognition of value that moms, dads, aunts,
uncles, friends, teachers etc can bring to a child’s life.  The goals
of raising a child is not left to a single person in their life.  This
is the mistake that I believe many focus on a competitive ground to
state “who’s better moms v dads”.  Gender doesn’t automatically make a
better parent.



What if
we focus on what’s best for the kids?  From my personal opinion any
parent, married or single, rich or poor, young or old, is to raise
their children in knowledge and reverence of the Lord. God says that He
will be a father to the fatherless (Psalm 68:5).  Does He lie???




Take your sons to church, teach them about the Lord, raise them in the
way that they should go (Proverbs 22:6), love them, protect them, DISCIPLINE them, and
you got you as good a man as any.