Child Cries Instead of Saying Sorry

by Isabelle
(Leiden Netherlands)

If my daughter (5 1/2) hurts her dad or myself (by mistake i.e her head hits your nose or something) instead of saying sorry as we ask her to do, she starts crying non-stop .

It is not because she is shocked to have created pain or frightened to have made us angry or so she says, but because she does not want to say that she is sorry.

I do not understand her thinking process, does anybody have some ideas or suggestions.

Thanks in advance for your help.



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