When we make a mistake, it is easy to blame someone or something else. For example, our toddler drove us crazy so we lost our temper, or the map was not clear so we went the wrong way. Just as we take ownership of our choices, we need to own our mistakes as well. There are days we are not going to have as much patience. When we get things wrong. When we do something that means we let our child down, our partner down, ourselves down. Making mistakes means that we have an opportunity to apologize. And to think about what we could have done instead. I can always say to my child (or anyone, for
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