Respect
Many people have ideas on how to reclaim the
virtue and morality that made America a great nation. However, the only sure
way that everyone can achieve this goal is if parents start teaching and
demonstrating respect to their kids. The dictionary defines respect as-
"to have regard for the quality of a person" or "to refrain from
obtruding upon or interfering with". The problem with society today is
that there is a complete lack of respect. The lack of respect is evident
everywhere, people have no respect for the law, they have no respect for their
peers, and they definitely do not have any respect for themselves. What parents
need to do is from an early age teach their kids to respect everyone, from the
person sitting next to them in school to their coworkers in the future. People
do not understand how much better the nation would be if the respect was there.
Even if some parents do not teach their kids this valuable trait, if enough
people are taught to respect others it will catch on. In most cases, if someone
shows respect to someone else, that
person is more likely to respect them back; causing a chain reaction.
Right
now, not enough parents are teaching their kids respect and this causes
violence, crimes, and can even lead to drug use. It is easy to see how these
problems can be easily solved or would be nonexistent if their was respect.
Violence would not be a problem, because no one would fight if they had respect
for the other person. The next problem is crime. Nobody is going to steal or
vandalize someone's property if they respect them. One other problem is drug
use, this would not be a problem is people respected themselves enough to not
harm their bodies with drugs. They also would not sell drugs because selling
something to someone that will harm them is not showing respect to that person.
It is extremely easy to sit back and say that
parents should teach respect, but it is not as easy to actually teach it. For
there is really no way to teach a child to respect others. Parents can tell
their children to respect others all they want, but the only way a child will
actually learn respect is from observing their parents as well as others
showing respect. This is why teaching
respect is so difficult, even if a child sees his parents respecting others it
may not be enough, the child must see other people respecting others. They must
also feel that other people respect them, because if they do not get respect
they will not respect anyone. This is why it is so important for everyone to
show respect to everyone else, not only will kids see it, but the more respect
that is shown to others the more respect that is received. For these reasons
respect is the chief ingredient in reestablishing the morality and virtue that
made America a great nation.
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