Compromising

Just look at the matter the other way round. You parents want you to clean your room. But you wish to go out and socialize with your friends a little. The last thing you would like to do now is to stay at home and make the order. Anyway, parents try to influence you with the help of their authority. They look like the giants at the gate to paradise. Confronting is your last hope to go out. At least, you are able to confront once or two, later they are able to influence you in less peaceful methods.

So, in such situation it is better to start... negotiation with your parents. In spite of the fact that it sounds strange and unusual to negotiate with own parents, but it could be the way to your freedom. For example, you can propose them to clean you room (or do it this weekend when you get more spare time for better cleaning up), but they are to allow you one more hour with your friends to spend.

To make a conflict into the joke is another opportunity to cope with the conflict harmlessly. The matter is that some reasons for the conflict situations are not as important as you may think. To understand what is important and what is not, try to think of the matter and understand what you wish to achieve with arguing. If the changes do not promise to be positive for every participant of the conflict, maybe, the game does not worthy the candles.

At the same time you should distinguish compromising and digression (when your opponent is eager to stop the discussion as he/she does not like arguing at all). Useless stubbornness in the conflicts sometimes prevents positive resolving.