# Crisis, Change, and Conflict As with society, so with the individual: real change rarely happens in the absence of crisis. If you haven’t experienced a crisis, you’ve barely experienced radical change. If you haven’t worked to change yourself, your ability to see another’s perspective is limited. If you can’t see yourself in another, you cannot resolve conflict with them. If you cannot resolve conflict, you drift toward a life of isolation. Not physically, but emotionally. Entropy will erode even the strongest relationships you’re born into or build if you cannot work through conflict. Unless safety or security is at stake, don’t interfere too much with your child’s encounter with a crisis.