No the parent you were asking, but my philosophy with my kids has always been to own up to my mistakes as quickly as possible and then make it as right as I can

No the parent you were asking, but my philosophy with my kids has always been to own up to my mistakes as quickly as possible and then make it as right as I can. I've had to apologize to each of my kids more times than I can count. The benefit that I've seen is that they are all willing to apologize to me as well. It seems to have worked well so far, but my oldest is just 18 and the sample size is small.