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Speaker 2: Now, parents who sit down and say, we're not seeing

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Speaker 2: Hello, this is doctor Justin Coulson, the founder of Happy

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Speaker 2: Families dot coment you and the host co host. Well,

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Speaker 2: table is missus Happy Families, my wife, my number one supporter,

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Speaker 2: the person who encourages me so much to live my

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Speaker 2: thanks so much for that. Hey, we've got a listener

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Speaker 2: how to help our families to be happy. This one, though,

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Speaker 2: is dealing with maybe the darker side of relationships. In fact,

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Speaker 2: what we've done is summarized it into one single sentence

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Speaker 2: little while. The question is arguing in front of the kids,

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Speaker 2: tables reverse roles a little bit today. I've studied this

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Speaker 2: ad nauseum, but I decided to ask missus happy families.

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Speaker 2: I asked Kyla to go and do a little bit

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Speaker 2: it through and see where we end up. So Kylie

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Speaker 3: Well, the reality is fighting is inevitable. That's the first thing,

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Speaker 3: Well, since I am running the conversation today.

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Speaker 3: It's the Happy Families Podcast, the podcast for a time

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Speaker 2: Now we're diving into a conversation about dealing with disagreement

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Speaker 2: what happens when our kids see that. Kylie, I think

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Speaker 3: Well, I think if we're practicing those kind of I

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Speaker 2: Okay, So parents who negotiate and parents who compromise. In

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Speaker 3: If you've got a voice, I think we're all going

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Speaker 3: It's not a conversation to have in front of kids.

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Speaker 3: Adult conversations that are for adult ears.

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Speaker 2: It's not rocket surgery.

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