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Tip Tuesday
Help Your Children Learn From Their Mistakes

Children make mistakes. It's what they do next that counts.

Teach your children these five steps for dealing with mistakes:
  1. Accept responsibility and apologize. 
  2. Fix the error, if possible. 
  3. Figure out why it happened. 
  4. Come up with a plan to avoid making the same mistake again. 
  5. Get over it. Children don't have to feel guilty about their mistakes, but they should remember them so they don't repeat them.
Source: The Parent Institute