Teaching Youth How to Make Apologies Using Restorative Justice Principles
Making effective apologies is a necessary skill. Yet few of us know how to do it and most of us fail to teach our children how to make effective apologies. Many of us think we can simply say, “I’m sorry,” or “Please forgive me.” But often an apology requires that we do more. Restorative justice principles provide ideal questions to ask others and ourselves when we need to make a meaningful apology. Ben Furman is…