Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective When siblings hurt one another, the process of repair is often limited to a quick ‘sorry’ or the…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective After making a mistake, children can often swing between two extremes. They either remain trapped in a cycle…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective It is common for a feeling of guilt to resurface long after a mistake has been repaired. Children…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective Children often think of making a repair as a form of punishment: a mistake that is followed by…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective When children hurt someone, whether with their words or their actions, making a direct repair with that person…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective Children often believe that their mistakes weaken them. They worry that being corrected or having to apologise makes…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective It is heartbreaking to see a child sink into despair, convinced that their mistake is too big for…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective Children often view the act of making amends as just another duty they have to perform: saying sorry,…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective When a child apologises to someone, they are repairing a horizontal relationship with that person. However, without any…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective Balancing mercy and limits is one of the hardest yet most rewarding aspects of parenting. If we only…
