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Repairing with your kids when you mess up.

Repairing with your kids when you mess up.

We all have moments when we fail to act like the parents we wish to be. What if repair is the BEST discipline?

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Jon Fogel
Jun 19, 2025
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“That is BAD parenting!” My five year old yelled at me through tears.

He had just opened the back door intentionally into his little brother who was trying to blast him with a squirt gun.

I had not reacted…. well.

I’m not proud to say that I yelled and closed the door in his face more firmly than was necessary. As I talk about in the chapter on this in …

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