“in which parents highlight the other’s perspective, point up the other’s distress, and make it clear that the child’s action caused it.”44 When the intervention is done with care, nurturance, and fairness, and the child becomes genuinely aware that he caused another’s distress, it can lead to a sense of guilt and remorse and a sincere effort to want to make reparation. For example, if the child takes another child’s toy away from him, the parent might sit him down and ask him how bad he would feel if someone did the same thing to him. Then the parent might ask him to imagine how bad the other
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