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Arguments are often dreaded, feared, and avoided. This is because many people lack the skills to resolve conflict and differences through conversation — not because all arguments are useless or harmful. When participants manage their emotions and build rationality and respect into their beliefs, arguments are an effective way to understand and work through differences. Countless people struggle to have constructive arguments and seek tips and tricks to help resolve and prevent them.

Call them discussions, disagreements, debates, or fights — by any other name an argument means that two or more people have a misunderstanding or a difference of opinion about something. Typically, the word we use for an adversarial communication process is rooted in our past experience, comfort level, and feelings about being at odds with someone. Arguments between couples, where the goal is no longer to resolve an issue, transform into intense power struggles and become unproductive creating high conflict.

Significant marital and family differences that go unresolved (and without a healthy argument process) settle into long term battles over ‘being right’ and proving it. Argumentative marital partners, relatives, and parents struggling with constant arguments with teens  can seek guidance through self-help sites that can be found on the blogosphere.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “arguments”

• The Right To Exist

  
  Z-Word Blog — Authority: 527
  Just a quick note to alert readers to a post by Jonathan G. Campbell over at Normblog.  It offers us a summary of Yaacov Lozowick’s Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel’s Wars.  Of course you’d be better off to read to the book but the post serves as a handy reminder of the [...]
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• Four Ways to Keep Cool When You’re Home for The Holidays

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 568
  1. Keep you expectations realistic Remind yourself that your family has never been perfect ad nobody’s is. Don’t be to hard on them or yourself. 2. Decompress ahead of time Before a family gathering, engage in an activity like exercise, yoga, or meditation to break up stress on a physical level. This way, ...
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• Equal in value and worth = in whose eyes?

  
  Women In Ministry — Authority: 115
  One of the problems with complementarian definitions is that they aren’t complete enough on the surface to reveal the underlying nature of their hierarchical disposition.  However when one pushes to get the answers to some difficult questions, the picture becomes a lot clearer that actually shows the ...
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• “Groupthink” Is Not An Insult

  
  Healthy Influence Blog — Authority: 127
  Groupthink is a term that began with legitimate social science research and has evolved into a pop press Alice in Wonderland word that means whatever you want it to mean, usually depending upon your politics.  A Wall Street Journal article , written by a member of Parliament who notes training in physics at ...
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• T or F: Abortion is just terminating a pregnancy, not killing a child

  
  Small Town Pastor — Authority: 133
  Here’s another common “mantra” of the pro-choice movement, and what better timing then as we approach the celebration of the birth of the Christ child: The unborn is an embryo or a fetus–just a simple blob of tissue, a product of conception–not a baby.  Abortion is just terminating a pregnancy, not ...
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• Aao Wish Karein Movie Review

  
  TrendPK.com — Authority: 166
  Director : Glenn Baretto Music : Ankur Tewari, Xulfi Lyrics : Ankur Tiwari, Xulfi, Danish Khan Starring : Aftab Shivdasani, Aamna Sharif, Johnny Lever If you believe in fairytales, you can be a part of it. This is what Hitchcock (not Alfred), but Johnny Lever’s character keeps repeating. Indeed, if you believe ...
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• The Guide to Gaining Holiday Weight And Feeling Awful

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 158
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• The 3 Pillars of Global Warming Lobotomized

  
  AMERICAN DIGEST — Authority: 657
  Responding to a passage in "On the Right" commenter Stephen describes Unqualified Reservations Climategate: historys message as a textbook on the bull-goose looney state that is AGWs argument. Hes correct. This is an essay that has a touch of greatness about it as well as a finely honed axe driven deep into the ...
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• Karachi court summons interior minister on Jan 8

  
  Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority: 461
  KARACHI: An accountability court on Friday ordered Interior Minister Rehman Malik and all other 52 accused wanted in NAB’s references, to appear before the court on January 8. In line with the Supreme Court’s verdict, an accountability court had earlier in the day issued arrest warrants of the interior minister ...
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• Stupid Creationist Arguments 8: All Mutations Are Bad

  
  Lone Wolfs Den — Authority: 120
  Natural selection requires positive mutations (mutations that increase the probability of a creatures surviving and reproducing). The argument attempts to disprove natural selection and thus evolution by saying there are no positive mutations to act on. Of course, its wrong.Mutations can be positive, negative ...
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• Always Hurting The Ones You Love?

  
  Naked News — Authority: 176
  You may probably have the experience of disagreeing or even getting mad with someone close to you, such as your parents, children, husband or wife. It is true that those who are the closest to us may upset us knowingly.
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• Function arguments optional in python

  
  rootninja — Authority: 130
  I like it. Its so simple and flexible. Define it with none, then assign sys.argv in place of argv.
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• And Jesus said, "I Need a Swimming Pool, so I Cant Heal You."

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Last night, several United States senators attended a prayer meeting to call on God to help them kill the healthcare reform bill (see here) . I mustve missed the part of the Bible where a bunch of people are denied healthcare because Jesus wanted a new swimming pool. Ok, now let me take off my scientist hat. This ...
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• Feeling Better . . . about Afghanistan

  
  Healthy Influence Blog — Authority: 127
  My prediction is accurate : “Obama’s approval rating on Afghanistan is 52 percent, according to an Associated Press-Gfk poll. That’s an increase of 10 percentage points from a survey a month earlier.” And this is not a halo effect.  Mr. Obama’s rating on other issues, like health care reform, is ...
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• 3 Tips For Dealing With Domestic Disputes

  
  The Fly Guy Chronicles — Authority: 121
  As I sat here getting my daily fill of SportsCenter, the stream of last night’s highlights was interrupted by a breaking news alert: Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry has passed away at age 26. Damn… I had to hop on the internet to seek some confirmation. The Associated Press confirmed as much: CHARLOTTE, ...
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• Were Not Switzerland

  
  Night Light — Authority: 461
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• Thoughts While Trimming Ones Beard

  
  AMERICAN DIGEST — Authority: 657
  Its getting to the point where Katie Couric, Charles Gibson, Anderson Cooper, the editors of The New York Times and The Washington Post, and a host of other sycophants in short pants have got to be looking into their morning mirrors and thinking, "I cant believe Ive got to keep giving handjobs to this preening putz ...
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• Randi and arguments from authority

  
  The Not-Quite-So-Friendly Humanist — Authority: 412
  My internet’s down, so I’m back hopping between free wifi cafe’s like I was in September. Hopefully when I’m back in the UK on Sunday I’ll have more regular access, and in the meantime I’m going to make the most of not having facebook as a distraction by getting some work done. But there’s some very ...
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• The Progressive case to vote against the Senate Healthcare bill

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 431
  Many years ago Markos was a dude like you and me. At parties once everyone was all liquored up folks would listen to him. It is the same way with me. Once everyone has a few, they will listen to anyone. That was then. Now, Markos has an audience of 100’s of thousands if not millions. Markos has grown with his ...
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• Stupid Creationist Arguments 8: All Mutations Are Bad

  
  Lone Wolfs Den — Authority: 120
  Natural selection requires positive mutations (mutations that increase the probability of a creatures surviving and reproducing). The argument attempts to disprove natural selection and thus evolution by saying there are no positive mutations to act on. Of course, its wrong.Mutations can be positive, negative ...
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