New parenting toolkit teaches kids to ‘Disagree Better’

The Wheatley Institute and Utah State University recently collaborated on the project, supported by Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox’s Disagree Better initiative

Published: May 15, 2024, 1:59 p.m. MDT

Jason Carroll, left, and Dave Schramm talk present Disagree Better: A Parenting Toolkit during the National Governors Association meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Carroll is the director of the family initiative at Brigham Young University’s Wheatley Institute, and Schramm is an associate professor and family life extension specialist at Utah State University. National Governors Association

The Disagree Better: A Parenting Toolkit features three parts.

The third section focuses on managing disagreements within a person’s community. The second part looks at handling disagreements with family members.

But the first section, titled “It Starts With Me,” is intended just for parents. And it’s designed as an internal, honest assessment of how parents are modeling disagreements to their children, said Dave Schramm, an associate professor and family life extension specialist at Utah State University.

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