'Quality' Arguments With Kids?

You may have heard a news story about the new research on how so-called "quality" arguments between parents and kids can help shore up the latter's ability to stand up for themselves in peer pressure situations. NPR's story about the research really seems to highlight the larger Imago-ish principle that what we learn in childhood sets us all up for future relationship dynamics:

From the NPR health blog: "We tell parents to think of those arguments not as nuisance but as a critical training ground," [one of the researchers] says. Such arguments, he says, are actually mini life lessons in how to disagree — a necessary skill later on in life with partners, friends and colleagues on the job.