Benefits of Time and Talking The graph on the left shows that most children, immediately after their initial punitive response, became even more likely to seek punishment rather than to repair damage. However, after some time and reflection, they chose the response Piaget considered more mature. The graph on the right indicates that children who had talked about the broken window example moved toward restorative justice even in examples they had not heard before. That was not true for those who had not talked about the first story.