I was taught to never interrupt an elder when I was a child, never to be rude to an elder and never to back talk. What is wrong with the children today? Are they just not being taught this?
2006-09-24 12:41:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Exactly. No one teaches their children how to behave anymore. They don't discipline for anything and just let their kids run wild.
2006-09-24 12:45:12 · answer #1 · answered by sweet.pjs1 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all, don't confuse respect with courtesy. Courtesy is behavior like not interrupting, not talking back, using a napkin at the dinner table, saying please and thank you.
Respect, the holding of something or someone in high esteem, must be earned. How many parents today are not acting in ways the earn their children's respect. Respect cannot be dictated. You don't get it automatically by being a parent, putting on a uniform, or teaching a class.
You can require courtesy, but you can't command respect. Behavior, physical actions, can be purchased, coerced, cajoled, bribed or enticed into being. The capturing of the mind is an entirely different matter. You win over the heart and mind by being worthy of it, through the example of your own actions.
For the most part, I find the children will rise to the occasion. If you expect good manners and behavior and act consistently, you get them. If you set a good example and show you care, respect follows. Look to your own example and behavior first for your answer.
2006-09-24 12:58:38 · answer #2 · answered by Magic One 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think of you would be my long lost toddler brother! particular, i become instructed on a each and daily foundation to appreciate my Elders and particular I did try this. i become in no way given any possibilities in the process my formative years and as a consequence I carried a resentment for fairly it sluggish. although, I did prove properly, and characteristic additionally taught my very own infants this comparable mantra - yet I in no way used the "infants could be seen and not heard" word with the aid of fact infants are little human beings and characteristic emotions and price in this international. CJ
2016-10-17 22:01:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because most kids these days aren't going to take sh*t from anyone including a gray-haired granny or someone who is considerly older than them. I'm one of those kids you speak of, I respect people who respect me. Just because you're older than me doesn't mean you can treat me any kind of way. Life is a two-way street baby. (I'm kind of glad the younger generation is like that, most older people abused that power in the past and molested and abused a lot of younger people with that "respect your elders" bullsh*t)
2006-09-24 13:17:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Elder's are usually just oxygen thieving coffin dodgers.I have more respect for the gum on the bottom of my shoe.I call him Larry the Enlightened.
2006-09-24 12:56:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not all elders these days deserve respect.
2006-09-24 12:44:21 · answer #6 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because nobody spanks their children anymore. Instead it's time out and then they go play playstation or something.
2006-09-24 12:46:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm polite to my elders.
2006-09-25 12:33:10 · answer #8 · answered by Strange Design 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I blame the media, and society who says its not ok to correct your child.
2006-09-24 12:45:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It changed as soon as it became illegal to use corporal punishment. the kids aren't afraid anymore.
2006-09-24 12:44:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋