A Love Language™ MinuteA Love Language Minute
A Love Language Minute draws from Dr. Gary Chapman's years of counseling experience, excerpts from his live events, and his answers to listeners' ques…
How can parents teach their children to take responsibility for their hurtful behavior? They should teach by example. When parents have hurt their children and are able to say "I was wrong. I'm sorry.", that will be the first step in teaching your children how to apologize.
A love language minute. Here's Doctor Gary Chapman on teaching responsibility for behavior.
Not easy to say I was wrong. In fact, why don't we just try it? I was wrong. See, some of you had trouble, even on a dry run. Incidentally, this is the first step in teaching a child how to apologize is to help them accept responsibility for their behavior. Our son was probably 6 or 7 when he accidentally knocked the glass off the table, and it fell on the floor and shattered in the kitchen, and I was in the kitchen, and I looked at him and he said, it did it by itself. And I said, Derek, let's say that in a different way, son. I accidentally knocked the glass off the table. It's not a sin to accidentally knock a glass off a table. I'm just trying to help him accept responsibility for his behavior.
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