March 1, 2010Success Story: Kids’ relationship contract resolves dramas
I’ve written about “relationship by agreement” many times. Today I read a blog post that describes youngsters putting this into action.
The Detective Mom’s daughter would find herself in friendship triangles where one friend would try to convince her to drop another as a friend. The last time the three got into a dispute, one girl drew up a contract about how they would treat each other. It solved the issue.
Have you heard the song “I don’t want to play in your yard?”
“You can’t holler down our rain barrel,
You can’t climb our apple tree,
I don’t want to play in your yard
If you won’t be good to me.”
Sounds reasonable to me. And the kids in the Detective Mom post demonstrate how to define what it means to be good to each other.
People I work with and I define what being good to each other means for us, in terms like:
- 24 hour response time.
- Manage expectations by updating when delivery times change.
- Talk about what we want more than what we don’t want.
How do you define what being good to each other means to you?
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