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As you sow, so shall
you reap. To gain respect from your children first you must respect your
own elders in front of them. Not only that you have to respect each
other too. We tend to take for granted that respecting each other is
about enslaving each other. WE consider that respect is what we give to
an authority figure, because we need to be in their good books. However,
that is not respect, but disrespect since it is not something genuine.
Respect towards elders or any person, as a matter of fact is about
honoring or holding in esteem an individual. It implies regarding an
individual as a person of value and virtue. We all expect respect from
others. But then do we actually respect others? For instance, because we
are adults we tend to take our parents for granted. We tend to get
irritated by every suggestion they make simply because we think that we
can never be wrong. We then admonish them or ignore them. We do not
realize that our children copy or rather mimic us. They then treat us
the same way.
Apart from this even the way we address the servants, is the way our
children will address them too. While your servant is hired by you and
you have every right to give them orders the way you want, realize that
they are still elders for your children. When you ill-treat or talk with
disrespect to your servant, your child does the same thing.
It is vital to teach your child how to respect each individual, in order
for him or her to command his or her own respect. And it all begins with
you as a parent. Another aspect we overlook is also the way we talk
about people in front of our children. For instance, when we bad-mouth
somebody in front of our children, they overhear our conversation,
disrespect that person and put us into an embarrassing situation. So it
is very vital that we watch our own actions and words in the presence of
our children, otherwise it will spell trouble not only for us, but also
for them, as there would be nothing beyond disrespect in the dictionary
of upbringing. Category
authored by Karishma Bajaj. Copyright
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