"A good rule of thumb is: if you’re a parent, you’re probably doing it wrong." LOL yup.
We went through a parenting phase of forcing our kids to apologize to each other, which, as expected, resulted in anger-screams of "I'M SORRY, OKAAAYYYY?!!?" and then we made them try again and again until they sounded contrite. I didn't love that because obviously we were just teaching our kids how to be good actors, so we stopped.
So far they seem to have turned out okay...unless they're exceptionally good actors.
"A good rule of thumb is: if you’re a parent, you’re probably doing it wrong." LOL yup.
We went through a parenting phase of forcing our kids to apologize to each other, which, as expected, resulted in anger-screams of "I'M SORRY, OKAAAYYYY?!!?" and then we made them try again and again until they sounded contrite. I didn't love that because obviously we were just teaching our kids how to be good actors, so we stopped.
So far they seem to have turned out okay...unless they're exceptionally good actors.