Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each the numbered blanks. When Ruckstaetter - a professor of counseling at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis -started researching apologies in graduate school, he found perplexingly (36) ____ studies focusing on apologies from parents to children. He surveyed 327 parents and found that those (37) ____ regularly apologized to their children reported stronger attachment ...

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each the numbered blanks.

When Ruckstaetter - a professor of counseling at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis -started researching apologies in graduate school, he found perplexingly (36) ____ studies focusing on apologies from parents to children. He surveyed 327 parents and found that those (37) ____ regularly apologized to their children reported stronger attachment bonds.

Apologizing is hard. “It can feel like death,” Ruckstaetter says. If you’ve hurt a child with your words or actions, don’t (38) ___ the resulting distress. Embrace guilt, a feeling that contains within it a (39) ____ of wrongdoing that can prompt prosocial behavior. “Move into your guilt and say, “I was wrong”, Ruckstaetter says. Notice if your response feels more like shame, which often results in withdrawal rather than apology. Shame might show as internal dialogue that says, “I’m bad,” or “I’m unworthy,” (40) ____ guilt tends to arise with more specificity: “I feel bad for saying those mean things.”

Theological Seminary in St. Louis -started researching apologies in graduate school, he found perplexingly (36) ____ studies focusing on apologies from parents to children