Are we forgetting to teach our children forgiveness?

My husband and I have been taking the Love & Respect class at our church on Wednesday nights for a couple month now. It has been really good. A couple of weeks ago we watched a video and Dr. Eggerichs was saying that when you've upset your wife how important it is that you apologize by saying that you're sorry and also asking for her forgiveness. Now I know that this is a marriage class and totally took to heart what he was saying but it hit me another way as well. He went on to say that when asking for you're wives forgiveness how much it would take her back. I thought about it and he's right. Wouldn't it take all of us back a little bit? Its easy to say sorry but to muster up and ask some one for forgiveness. Thats HUGE and rare. By definition the word forgiveness means this...Forgiveness is typically defined as the process of concluding resentment, indignation or anger as a result of a perceived offense, difference or mistake, or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution. Asking for forgiveness is admitting that you were wrong about something and making a personal commitment of sorts that you will not hold on to their wrong doing. How awesome is forgiveness?? AMAZING, yet so hard to do. When we are wronged it's hard to forgive because usually we won't forget. What really hit me was, "Oh my, am I teaching Carter how to forgive?" It's very easy for me to give the busy mom line of, "tell your brother you're sorry" but I'm forgetting to teach about the forgiveness that comes after the apology. The more I thought about it I started to realize that I'm probably not the only one forgetting this. It may seem so little, but in reality it's huge. As a mother of boys I want my boys to grow up learning the importance of how to treat a lady. While this is key, they need to learn to forgive everyone that may apologize to them. Teaching them from very little is the best way to get them in the habit of it. Just because I may have trouble as an adult forgiving sometimes, I know its not something I'm proud of, I am human and imperfect. I definalty want my children to learn from my mistakes. My biggest struggle that I face is how to teach Carter forgiveness. It's not as though he's a typical child who understands everything. It's all about wording things in a way that he can understand. Although I've become better about this I'm still no expert. Getting him out of the logical thinking and into emotional understanding is going to be a challenge. I'm up for the challenge. While it may take a while for him to grasp it I can at least try every time an apology is made for him to try and understand. Hopefully one day he will get it. So am I alone on this or does anyone else forget to teach our children the importance of forgiveness???