disrespecting your elders

I would grit my teeth and turn around.. And ASAP get a hold of that boys parents to let them know what he is up too.. I would expect an honest apology to.. If the boys parents sat there and stood up for the boy.. I would have to leave, but I would have one thing to say before I left.. This is a perfect example of whats wrong with the world today!! Lack of respect!!

I don't know with kids nowadays, they walk around without manners and respect to others in general, not just elders but so as the people their own age. Respect must be displayed a all times wherever, whenever, and to whomever. They must be put in a proper perspective and I hope their parents would opt to talk to their children, 12 or 13 years of age behaving in such a way, my oh my. Someone do something about these kids.

Respect really is just something that has fallen by the wayside these days. It has become such that most people will not really bat an eyelash about anything that has said or done anyone. Granted, the elders aren’t that much better, but still there are times where there is a huge disrespect going on. Just some of the dialogue flooding out of the mouth of people, it really does make you want to shake your head. I sadly think things are going to get far worse. The only think that I would suggest doing is leading a good example, but that’s just the way things tend to be flowing. And then there are some who try and be respectful, but find themselves stepped on and ridiculed for it. So you’d figure that some people have mentally given up, and just went down the disrespect train. Whether it is right or wrong, it has happened. Still some things that are said just make you want to scream in frustration.

I will tell him and his friends, You should be grateful i am not your mother if i am, i'll make sure you hang up in the wall with your friends. Or rather i'll tell him i pity him for having such a very useless mom who don't know how to teach right manners and good conduct to his kids. But of course i don't mean it, it's just my way of reverse psychology. I don't know if it will work but i hope so...

May be apart from text lesson, teachers of those kids are not teaching ethics to them in their classes.

I would visit their school and give advise to their prefect of discipline about the students of their school. With that, they would be aware with the fruits of their school.

Yes, some kids are already bad now. I don't know why they became like this? Maybe one factor is their environment, then how their parents brought them up, their friends, or at school. We should do our best to teach these children how to respect other people, whether they are elderly or not. Parents should discipline their children so that they won't grow up ill-mannered. My son is learning bad things from his classmates and I'm having a hard time disciplining him because I only see him on weekends.

There are small kids who also know how to curse and shout bad words when they're having fight with enemies. So, when old people come in between- they just ignore the elders and even say bad words too. Too bad the moral of these kids are becoming worse these days.

Nowadays with the things you see on TV, the net and all other forms of media, the positive and negative effects are seen, and I think that those kids you mentioned is a reflection of the negative side of today's modern day media. Psychosocial factors especially environment, peers and alike really influence their minds.

its not a matter of disrespect and also its a small thing,we must follow others and try to follow the rules

biged4800 I would in a joking, teasing voice..keeping it very light... and relay to them their behavior is unacceptable... I would be serious in my message but try to convince them in a friendly, but serious manner..like..come on, you guys look like smart kids... do you really want to sound like a first grader who just learned a cuss word....and I would maybe laugh ...

oh my, kids in the present generation are not at all well mannered. They doesn't show any respect . I don't now whats wrong with them. Parents should take extra care and teach their children, how to behave with others /elders. I think i would just complain to their parents. If they to sound like that, then its helpless. But if parents do really care for their children then they will definitely look into the matter.

I think it depends also to the parents how they raise their child with discipline and respect.Parents are the very first person to teach the good manners and right conduct to their children.The home is the very first school for them so parents should take the responsibility for the behavior of their children.

I know how you feels. I've seen a lots of kids trash talking to someone older than them. It just so frustrating that children in this generation are growing without moral values instill in them.

If my cousins at 11 were going around cussing and thinking it was cool they would be in serious trouble. I dont have any older than 11 in my family yet so ill wait till they turn 13 and get in the 7th and 8th grade and if they do it around me there will be big consequences. My family doesnt put up with that at all and they will get cell phones, ipads and posisbly tvs and video games taking away from them if there parents were to hear that from there mouths. The think now a days is you need video proof or a recorder to record there actions so the parents actually to beleive them. Without that noe a days its hard to with stand a child telling his parents that it wasnt true.

Kids today don't respect themselves or anyone else. If my son had treated someone like that when he was 13 and I found out about it, he would have been in serious trouble. To start with I would have made him apologize to you. If I were in your place and I knew the parents I would go to them and tell them what happened and how the others reacted to what the child had done. I used to run a consignment shop and one day this lady came in with her 7 year old son. He wanted something and she told him no. He punched her in the stomach and cussed her for a b----. She looked at me and started sobbing. She said I don't know what to do, I can't do anything with him. I told her that the reason she couldn't do anything with him was because she keeps telling him she can't and lets him get by with everything. I told her she was the parent and she needed to start acting like it. I told her to let me keep him for about a month and she wouldn't know him when she came back. Some people don't know what they're kids are doing when they're out of their sight, but some really don't care. Kids are raised to respect their elders anymore like they were when we were kids. I would report the behavior to their parents.