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Re: Father??? Have you ever
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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson
Well, whatever you do, don't be one of those parents that never apologize to their children.
Turn this stumbling block into a stepping stone and teach your children a little something about humanity, humility, and love.
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Apologize without excuses (because a child's bad behavior isn't the cause of a parent's bad behavior) and move on.
Jeff and I have a rule that if we get into an argument in front of the kids we have to make up in front of the kids. Good parenting doesn't mean perfection, but it is important to teach kids how to handle things appropriately when you do mess up. If you want your children to apologize when they are wrong, you set the example.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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