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Adults should apologize to young people much more often. By doing so they model humility and demonstrate that mistakes shouldn’t be a punishable offense from people in the community who ostensibly care about their wellbeing and improvement.
If every time an adult is wrong and refuses to apologize while rather punishing a child emotionally or physically, they teach them that the caregivers love is conditional on whether or not the adult is appeased with their arbitrary behavior.
It makes a very fraught dynamic and sets a bad precedent between a caregiver and a child where communication should be open and trusting.
It primes a developing human being for unhealthy relationship dynamics—abuse—as the model relationships they inevitably look up to teach them that love is submission to power, onesided, and inconsiderate of one party’s feelings and ultimately nonconsensual.
