Where is the respect?

I too was raised to respect others and my elders but i believe today the culture is different. Kids are so rude nowadays and parents dont seem interested in raising kids that count. The media too plays a big role in influencing bad behaviour amongst the youth. I miss the good old days where respect ruled the world..

your transformation for not having christian respect for others is not acceptable to your creator god. he assuredly has been saddened by your departure from him and his standards one must live by to remain in his grace. he wants you back because he strongly believes that you will do the right thing. please adhere to the follow- ing advice: be encouraging, be steadfast, be humble, be a doer of good, be reason- able, and be compassionate. and stay close to god and he will stay close to you!

I think you're right. I think that in general, people respect other people less than they did several years ago. You can see it in neighborhoods, in stores, and especially in apartment buildings. I have some neighbors who let their kids play in the hallway of my apartment, screaming and bouncing a ball up against the walls. At my last place, I had neighbors whose kids stared in my window all the time (they were looking for my cat) and their parents never once told them it was inappropriate to stare into other people's windows. I also encounter really disrespectful people at work as a cashier- people talking loudly on the phone while they're checking out, people who let their kids run around and knock stuff off the shelves, and people who are just plain rude to everyone for no reason. I was taught not to behave like that when I was a kid, and I wouldn't behave like that now. I really have no idea why it is that respect is dying, except that we are becoming more and more obsessed with individualism and less and less focused on community. I also don't have any sound ideas on how to fix this problem. Does anyone else?

It seems that parents expect teachers to do all of the work, and respect along with many other things should start at home and early in life. I see respect taught in families with a strong belief in God and Church, but rarely anywhere else. It is a shame that things are the way they are. It is taking the court system to make parents responsible for the things that their children do to even begin to set things right. Families need to teach the 10 commandments and the Bible and actually believe in what they are teaching. Children learn from example and how they act in public is how their parents act at home. I was PTA persident for 2 years and I found that the parents were worse that their children. During meetings parents would set and talk and not show their children how to act. So what do they expect when their children get in trouble for disrupting class, as it is what they learned at home.

I completely agree with you! I’m only 27 but I was certainly raised you don’t have to like your elders but you respect them. I’ve worked with quite a few “kids” that where within 5 years of me in age and it seemed like hearing “treat elders with respect” is a foreign language to them. I have no idea how to turn this around aside from teaching my own kids to teach elders with respect.

I have noticed an increase in disrespect for others. I think the main cause can be traced back to people not parenting their children. People have kids but then ship them off to babysitters and daycare instead of raising the children themselves. There is no way to know what someone else is teaching your children and others usually do not care about your child as much as you do. Parents also have a tendency to allow their children to watch too much tv, play too many video games, spend too much time online, etc. Those forces then become louder in the mind of the child than the parent's voices. Children don't know who to turn to for guidance. If we are to increase the level of respect in our youth, then we must first increase the level of parenting in the adults.