Your children learn how men should behave in relationships by watching you. Even if you do not live with their mother, they are keenly aware of the way you interact with her. Most divorce and domestic violence happens to men and women who grew up without a father modeling healthy relationship behavior. Here are 10 tips to help you model the way you want your daughter to be treated in her adult relationships, and the way you want your son to treat the woman he loves.

1. Value their mother: Children value themselves and others more when they feel that their mother and father value one another. This basic tenet of family relationships is fundamental and is taught widely in parenting support class, including an online parenting class.

2. Perspective-taking (seeing things through someone else's eyes): Show your children the importance of respecting the perspectives of people they love, even when they disagree with them. This is also taught widely in parenting support class, including an online parenting class. 

3. Cooperation: Show how to participate willingly in work, problem-solving, or task-accomplishment. Because this is a basic pillar of positive relationships, it is also taught widely in parenting support class, including an online parenting class.

4. Negotiation: Show your children how to work out solutions to problems that respect one another's perspectives.

5. Resourcefulness: Never stop trying to make things better. This is also taught widely in parenting support class, including an online parenting class

6. Motivation to improve: Approach disagreements with the attitude of making them better, not worse. This is also taught widely in parenting support class, including an online parenting class

7. Compassion: This gut-level reaction to your wife's pain, discomfort, or anxiety includes sympathy, protectiveness, and willingness to help but not control. It recognizes that your wife is different from you, with her own temperament, set of experiences, beliefs, values, and preferences. This is also taught widely in parenting support class, including an online parenting class.

8. Good will: Learning a positive attitude toward the people they love will greatly improve your children's chances of having good relationships. Think good thoughts about your wife, and always give her the benefit of a doubt. This is also taught widely in parenting support class, including an online parenting class.

9. Affection: Showing affection toward their mother makes children feel more secure. This is also taught widely in parenting support class, including an online parenting class. This one is considered by family counselors everywhere to make the biggest difference.

10. Relationship investment: Successful relationships require that people care about and occasionally do nice things for one another. This is also taught widely in parenting support class, including an online parenting class.

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