Kids have sophisticated abilities to forgive: Study

A study suggests that teaching children to understand other people’s perspectives could make it easier for them to learn how to forgive people. The study also found that teaching children to make sincere apologies can help them receive forgiveness from others.

“Forgiveness is important in children and adults for restoring relationships and limiting future conflicts. But we didn’t know much about what makes children more likely to forgive others, particularly from early childhood to adolescence. That’s what we wanted to explore with our study,” said study author Kelly Lynn Mulvey.