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Say Sorry – Asking a Child to Apologise

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Ask a Child to Say Sorry. By Warwick Marshall

Some early childhood service teachers do not want to ask a child to say sorry. They avoid this.

But why?

And what if anything is wrong with supporting children to say ‘sorry’?

Here is some reasoning on the matter.

No doubt there’s some kind of reasoning for it but this articl

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