改正下面短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在答题卡该行右边横线上画一个勾（√），请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.原行没有错的不要改。
I can remember times when, like children, my brothers and I    1.______
would all point at one another when asking who was to blame     2.______
for wrong deeds. Unfortunately, it usually resulted in all three of    3.______
us getting beatings. Once, however, I didn’t manage to save myself  4.______
from a beating by telling my mother I had only one good hairbrush, 5.______
as she’d broken all other ones in the beatings. She thought she had  6.______
better not to use her last hairbrush and, instead, gave me a warning. 7.______
The excuses of children are not always successfully, but               8.______
now and then there is one that it will cause a parent to forgive     9.______
them. Maybe this is because children keep thinking them up.       10._____