Because apologizing to a child is an act of love

Offering excuses is a great lesson in humility. Asking for forgiveness means recognizing that like any human being you are wrong and doing it with your child will make him respect you even more.

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Offering excuses is a great lesson in humility. To ask forgiveness it means recognizing that like any human being you are wrong and doing it with your child will make him respect you even more.





No one is perfect or infallible. Anyone can make mistakes and make mistakes. Both towards children and other people before apologizing we must take into account a fundamental aspect.

Apologizing or, on the other hand, granting forgiveness is useless if the person who has done wrong or wronged us has not assumed the responsibility for their actions.

If we apologize without being aware of our real responsibilities, we risk begging for forgiveness just to wash our conscience. Our request in this way will turn into a further wrong against the person we are addressing.

In the case of children, having a correct behavior from this point of view is even more important because parents must lead by example since I am a model to be imitated.

Because apologizing to a child is an act of love

If we are wrong we must also commit ourselves to remedy our actions if they have had negative consequences for our children and obviously also for other people.

Parents have a very important task ahead of them: to help their children in their growth and to be a model for them.

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Children need empathy, security, trust, comfort, and assertiveness. Furthermore, it is important for them to learn forgiveness as a personal tool for relating to others.

Asking for forgiveness is taking a step forward

Asking for forgiveness should always become a step forward in one's personal growth and should never be an empty action. If we have made mistakes we can often still take action to alleviate the negative consequences.



One of the important lessons that parents can pass on to their children is to remind them that from mistakes made, you can learn something new about life starting from the possibility of improving in the future.

We can change our attitude and learn to act more appropriately next time.

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Educating in respect and consistency

Because apologizing to a child is an act of love

Apologizing to children when one is wrong makes parents of theresponsible and aware peoplethe. Asking a child for forgiveness, recognizing him as a person, is an act of respect for him and a demonstration of the love you feel for him.

There are probably some parents who have never thought that they should apologize to their children because from their point of view, pride must always come first. However, asking for forgiveness from children is essential to recognize them as independent people who deserve to be respected and treated consistently not only by parents but by everyone else.


For a parent, the maximum expression of consistency it consists in really practicing what it preaches. It is the most important rule of a respectful upbringing of children.


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Forgiveness in the family is easier if everyone is free to express their opinions and especially when there is true mutual listening. So parents can be the first to set a good example both in respecting the opinions of others and in knowing how to apologize after making a mistake and in knowing how to forgive.

Marta Albè

Illustrations by Snezhana Soosh

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