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This 2-minute video for parents features Mental Health Therapist Stephanie Dann talking about apologizing. We all make mistakes and apologizing is a part of making things right again. There are some benefits to apologizing: makes the person and you feel better, improves the relationship, and you are more likely to make a better choice in the future. Steps to making an apology: 1. Calm down and think 2. Say what you did and why it hurt the other person 3. Ask how you can fix things 4. Say you will try to do better next time and that you hope that person can forgive you 5. Give the person time to feel better Challenge: When you make a mistake, don’t pretend like nothing happened. Be brave and make an apology!

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Hi my name is Stephanie Dann. I'm a mental health therapist with White River School District and today I wanted to talk to you about apologizing. We all mess up. And we all make mistakes. It's a part of life. Apologizing is when we say that we're sorry. And we let people know that we get it. That we didn't do our best. I don't know about you, but since being home during Covid, I have been more grouchy, and more grumpy. Stress has been higher and there's just been more opportunity for conflict at home. I had to make mistakes, and I've had to say sorry. Often times we don't want to apologize. It doesn't feel very good. But there's some real benefits to apologizing to people in our life. It makes that other person feel better. It makes the relationship better between you. It helps you to make better decisions in the future, when you acknowledge the mistakes that you've made. And ultimately, apologizing does make you feel better too. There are some steps to making a good apology. It's not just about saying sorry. Step number one is calm down and think before you apologize. Really think about what you want to say to that person. Number two is let them know what you did, and why it hurt them. Number three. Ask that person how you can fix things. Number four is say you'll try to do better next time, and hope that they can forgive you, although that's not necessary that they have to. And number five is, give that person time to feel better, and acknowledge what you said. So those are some steps to making a good apology. Try that out this week when you make a mistake, becuase you inevitably will because you are human, and we all do. See you later!

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