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This Week's Episode:
"Forgiveness is not being weak—it takes strength and courage to forgive." - How To Teach Kids Forgiveness Skills
The benefits of practicing and giving forgiveness:
How do we teach forgiveness skills to our kids?
- Model it: We practice forgiving our spouses, our friends, and them.
- Ask for it: Teach how to ask for forgiveness.
- Have patience: Don’t rush your child to forgive.
- Seek justice: Forgiving someone is not the same as saying what happened was ok or didn’t matter or just forgetting abou it.
- Teach empathy: Seeing the other side and understanding another person. Recognizing everyone’s sense of worth and inherent value.
- Give freedom: Forgiveness is not the same as reconciliation. You can forgive, but also not want to be friends. There are natural consequences to hurting someone.
- Share examples: Call out examples of forgiveness in books and movies.
- Teach self-forgiveness: We need to help them avoid shame and blame and guilt.
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