Some problems with respect
photo by Karen James
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Your kids will learn to respect you when they come to understand from experience what respect feels like to them.Sandra Dodd:
It can't happen all at once, but without taking the first steps, and the next, it will never happen.
![]() | "Respect your kids. Too many adults DEMAND respect from kids without showing any respect in return. Doesn't work." —Lyle Perry |
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I love my children and think they're really important, and that it is part of my privilege to be their mom and to introduce them to the fun and interesting parts of the world, and I hold them in esteem. They are of higher value to me than other things and other people. That isn't respect they had to earn. But it's emotional and it's attitudinal, and it's relative to me. —Sandra Dodd, in 2010 |
How do we as parents show that we respect our children, that we are parenting respectfully? One big way is by genuinely listening to them. One way is by being honest with them about our own feelings, and telling the truth about events, or unexaggerated truthful reasons about why things can or cannot occur.
Trust and respect go together. Someone who is trustworthy will be respected. | ![]() |