Healing [One Minute Feature] - Trace Embry

On a scale of one to ten, how would you rank your relationship with your child? Now ask your child the same question. Where would they put your relationship on that scale?

As parents, we desire and work towards healthy relationships with our children. But what if your relationship is in need of some healing?

Making Things Right

We all want healthy parent/child relationships. But, what do we do when we’ve blown it with our kids? When the pressures of work, bills, and life, in general, has turned us into Frankenstein monsters? There are fundamentally three components to rebuilding relationships and healing. Although they are not comfortable, and boy are they effective and surprisingly simple.

These three are confession, repentance, and forgiveness. When we admit our mistakes to our kids; sit them down and boldly tell them we are on a mission to change the things we are culpable for in the relationship, and then humbly ask for their forgiveness, our kids are usually resilient enough to forgive, forget and go on.

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