Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective When children are empowered to design their own solution after a mistake, they learn the lesson faster and…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective Effective consequences are those that grow a child’s skills and help to restore trust, not those that crush…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective When a child makes a mistake, our first instinct is often to rush in and fix it for…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective When a child is scared to talk about something they have done wrong, the first ten seconds of…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective When a child’s feeling of guilt flips into a state of panic, they will look to your nervous…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective When a child has let others down, whether by missing a responsibility, forgetting a promise, or dropping out…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective Sometimes a mistake happens in a group setting, such as a classroom outburst, a disruption during an activity,…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective Children often dread being reduced to a single mistake, whether it is being known as ‘the kid who…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective Facing a peer group after a rumour has been spread can feel terrifying for a child. The fear…
Helping Children Deal with Guilt or Regret
Parenting Perspective It can feel crushing for a child to gather their courage, offer an apology, and then hear the…
