32 Skills Practice: A Difficult Conversation About A Child’s Grade

Now that you’ve had the opportunity to consider a scenario that didn’t go well and how that same scenario could end more positively, you can practice a simplified version.

Remember the three steps:

  1. Apologize.
  2. Validate the other person’s emotions.
  3. Offer a conversation to collaboratively identify a solution.

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Family Partnerships: Building Trusting, Responsive, and Child-Focused Collaborations Copyright © 2024 by Adria Hoffman, Ph.D.; Christine Spence, Ph.D.; Maryam Sharifian, Ph.D.; Judy Paulick, Ph.D.; and Rachel W. Bowman, M.A. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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