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Making it real continued:

Part of follow-up is supporting the child to consider how they can

make amends with anyone who has been impacted by their words

or actions (we will return to this in our unit on ‘Repair’).

We must recognise that it is due

to stressors being too great for their

current skill set that some children

struggle to meet expectations; they

are not simply ‘being bad’.

However, we must also help children take responsibility for any

negative impact of their difficulties and teach different ways to

make amends (not just by forcing the child to ‘say sorry’).