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Growing up I was always told, "Respect your elders." I think this is a lost concept with children these days. I'm baffled with what I see happening in my own family, in the grocery store, at the park, and at school. Children have lost respect. In the old days, you'd get a whipping for talking back or causing trouble. Fortunately those days are over, but shouldn't there be some form of reprimand for rude bahavior? Are we raising our kids to be disrespectful? What are we missing that the older generation had? Are children getting worse with every passing year? Or does the older generation just always think the younger generation to be rude and impertinent?
Is it okay for my 13 year old niece to talk back to her grandma without receiving any kind of punishment from her parents? I hope not! Where do we draw the line? What do we need to do different?
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George Orwell said “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” Perhaps it is true that it is easier to find fault in others than it is to find it in ourselves. Although I find it offensive to watch my sister back talk my mother, I have to ask myself…didn’t I speak to her like that too when I was 16? As we get older we mature and see that our once selfish and rude behavior is no longer acceptable, but in our youth weren’t we too caught up in living the situation to see past it? It is easy to pat ourselves on the back and think that we never showed disrespect or acted selfishly when we were children, and perhaps it wasn’t to the extent that kids go today. BUT I feel that it is as are most things in this world, they only get bigger with time. We become more daring as a society as time goes by, we become more selfish and unattached, we become more independent and less grateful. But when a person will slap the hand that feeds them, we must ask ourselves, the generation that came before them and set the example, where did they learn this behavior?
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Jen, I agree that kids are getting very disrespectful. I had a professor in college that made the comment that this generation (meaning the high schoolers) are handed most things in life, and thus they are very spoiled. They all have top of the line cell phones, very nive i-pods, cars, etc. Some of them work for these, but the majority don't. They almost feel as though they deserve eveything that they get. I do agree with Lindsy in that, it is somewhat natural for teens to be disrespectful, but I think that adults need to be better in both showing respect towards teens and demanding respect.
As a teacher, I try my best to show my students respect, and in return, they show me respect. But I have seen many incedents where students are very biligerant towards other teachers. Compleatly unacceptable.
I also feel as though it is the responsiblity of the parents to instill proper and desireable qualities. Teachers can't be expected to everything!! But usually, in my experience I have found that if you show these kids respect, they will show you respect, and they will come to love and befriend you.
Jordan
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The problem is not with the children, it is with the parents. Further, when children are impolite, odds are the parents are not going to do diddly about it. That has been my experience and has been demonstrated time and again. You cannot raise other people's children, so raise your own. - Manners are free, make sure they use them. - Demand that they say please, thank you, etc. - Teach your children proper behavior in restaurants, at church, school and among other human beings. - If your children fail to behave accordingly, let there be consistent consequences. Finally, I have seen too many parents make excuses for their childrens awful behavior. Often these same parents go so far to blame everyone else for their child's misdeeds. They are the problem, not the children. Coach Coco
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