started badminton at the society court last month. coach told her today she's not allowed to say sorry anymore, only 'next one'. she came home and said sorry for saying sorry. we're working on it
Football here, same habit. He says sorry to the ball, the goalpost, the kid who tackled him. His coach started making him run a lap for every sorry. It stopped in about two weeks.
It may have stopped the word rather than the feeling behind it. A coach tried push-ups for the same habit with my daughter, and she simply went quiet for a term. A replacement phrase, like the 'next one' rule in the post, tends to work better than a penalty.
Replying to @teal_sandal_2724
yeah i'd rather she says next one than goes quiet. a lap per sorry and mine would be running till diwali
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