yeah I have apologized to my kids too.. you know we did what we thought was right.. just as possibly our parents did for us..
We thought we were saving their lives.. if we had a clue what it was really about, we would have given them different childhoods.. ones with some freedoms outside the box..
but we can't change the past. I don't know that my apology meant anything to my kids.. In some ways it probably did more for me..