A Lost Art: Instilling Respect

my parents would alway inforce the school rules and homework as i did with mine being a PARENT IS NOT TRING TO BE COOL IN FRONT OF YOUR KIDS

Hmmm interesting article, my favorite comment when trying to read when my kids were growing up was, ‘If there are no bones showing and/or you are bleeding, and if you are bleeding, either go outside or stand in the bathtub, don’t call me until I am done reading’ Always worked, I did have one child that read as much as myself so she understood immediately, the other two would find something to do usually board games until I was finished.

When my mother practiced the look you could cut the tension with a knife…

I’m 32 and still scared stiff of THE LOOK, love her to bits though!

Great article. Funny though, when I was a kid, I controlled the household. When I became a mom, I vowed not to let my son do it. I have to remind my mother that her grandson is not in charge when he goes to their house. She is coming around. Slowly

This article nails it on the head! It was exactly what I have been thinking of how today’s children seemed to be. I see more harassed parents then I see children respecting their parents. I feel society is becoming very much a “me” society. There are some children out their who don’t follow the norm such as the kid who setup the lemonade stand as a fund raiser.

Even though my parents were very strict, I was taught to respect others and that what Mom and Dad said was law. Children were seen but not heard was a phrase I heard.

I experience more and more the child that bumps into me at the grocery store and the parent doesn’t say to the child say excuse me to the lady, no they go and say excuse me for the child. Today’s child doesn’t learn boundaries.

This was in last week’s US News and World Report. Everyone needs to see this, but (trust me), the ones who need it most never will.

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2007/09/09/its-tough-but-you-can-do-it.html

At my house, when the boys were young, all we had to do was have my husband say “I’m disappointed in you.” That’s all it took.

I’m familiar with The Look. Even though I don’t have children, I’ve apparently got The Look down pat. I call it, using the Brown Laser Beams of DOOOOOOOOOOOM.

All of my cats are familiar with The Voice, as it’s the auditory equivalent of The Look. It almost always results in the instant cessation of the offending activity, and a remarkable dearth of cats in my immediate vicinity.