Hank Pellissier writes about parenting, and his ideas about forgiveness in kids warmed our hearts.
He talks about how teaching our tots forgiveness with their siblings will make them better people forever. These tips seem pretty applicable to us big kids too.
Showing forgiveness doesn’t mean the behavior of the ‘wrongdoer’ is OK. It’s more about allowing a kid to go through a process – to have compassion for someone despite what they’ve done. Through acceptance, both people have room to work through the hurt. Most of us know the way someone acted in the past doesn’t predict what they will do tomorrow.
Practice forgiveness in your own life to set an example for your youngin’s, and search out examples of others also practicing compassion. It’s all about patience.
Can we try and do a little more of this? As our forever-friend Martin Luther King Jr said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
