Identifying and Analyzing Alternatives

• A problem that would be current is if your parents are divorcing. For example if you want to be with your father, and your mom says that no you can't stay with your father, and that she wants you to stay with her. You'll have to try to find a solution, a compromise, to solve this problem.

• To solve this problem you would tell her that you would pass the weekdays with your father, and the weekends with her. That you didn't want you dad to depress all alone, or get sick, and have no one to count on. She had already taken custody of your sister or brother, so she wouldn't be alone.

• Another arguement that you could use is that you don't want to move because you have all your friends living around you, and the school is closer. That you don't want to fail school, and you want to stay a good student. Parents will not want to hurt your future so they will consent if you use an educational arguement.

• To not hurt either of your parents do not say that you prefer this one or the other. Just be neutral and tell them that your thinking whats best for you and for them. Tell them that if they want to change their lifestyle and not be together anymore its their problem. They should not try to change your life too, and your vision of things.
• This is how I would solve this problem. I would use concrete arguements. Not only one sort of arguement but many.