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I Want To Talk About Parenting

Do you teach your children to respect adults? I mean to talk to them with the respect they deserve? I'd be mortified if I found my kids acted the way some kids do nowadays. My coworker was telling me he doesn't respect his teachers calling one a b*tch a** ni**** because she told him to give her his phone he was using during class. The rule is no phones out in class and he actually told her that and thinks he was in the right. I'd have beat his a** and made him turn it over telling her enjoy the phone he doesn't deserve it. That's not even the worst I've heard about kids nowadays and I tell kids did you earn respect? Nope you don't get to decide when you get respect you have to become an adult and then start to earn it. Being born doesn't mean you earned it unless your parents hate you so they don't raise you right. I tell my kids I better never hear them demand respect or not give it to all adults or they will regret acting stupid.
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MissSimpleMind · 41-45, F
Respect is a learned behavior and rarely does the “do as I say and not as I do” approach work. Know a disrespectful rotten kid? Look at their parents. How do they act? You teach your kids respect by showing THEM respect and by showing respect to others in front of them. I teach my kids to respect and value people – not just adults. Even kids deserve respect. They might not be our equal in skill or knowledge, but they are in human dignity. If you treat them as such, they will do the same for you.