Teaching Respect

Psychology for Living Gwen Randall-Young
Increasingly, parents and teachers share stories with me about children or students who seemingly have little or no respect for authority. I am shocked when I hear about children swearing at or even hitting their parents. If they get away with this at home, it is not surprising that they carry this disrespect for adults into the classroom.
In some cases, these children are only modeling the disrespect shown to them by adults. It is important for adults to speak respectfully to children, even when they are angry. If adults break all the rules of healthy communication when they are angry, children learn to do this too.
It is never too late to change. Children must be taught to respect adults. They may feel quite powerless if their parents are rude and abusive. However, the behavior of others is never justification for inappropriate behavior ourselves.
If a student feels a teacher is treating him or her disrespectfully, they must not be disrespectful in return. That is not right. What they can do, is to follow  proper channels to make a complaint.
The sanity and safety of our culture is based on rules and respect for the rights of others. If children do not have a sense of respectful boundaries and behaviors, we compromise the future stability of our society.  If we are mean to children, they will become mean adults.  Everyone involved, both children and adults, has a responsibility to work to improve a destructive situation. As adults though, we must take the lead.
Gwen Randall-Young is an author and award-winning Psychotherapist.  For permission to reprint this article, or to obtain books or cds, visit www.gwen.ca

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stop 'trying'!

By Luc Majno:
(in this picture, yes, this moose got ‘strung up’ because when the lines were down, it got caught in them!!)

Good message today!! WOW! It’s like they were pointing at me! THINK: MOOSE

Meditation for Monday september 27
It simply is not enough to be fuelled by the thought of sweet justice, of honesty, of goodness, and to think that all this will play itself out in the world. If you don’t know how to handle yourself, you will constantly run up against others, difficulties will ensue, and you will easliy be discouraged. So, what to do?

The key is to simply leave others alone, and keep on your task to be the best you can ever be, and to perfect yourself, so that, slowly but surely, when you present yourself before them, your Light will surprise them, and when they SEE you, they will realize that they have gotten lost and went astray and got stuck in the mud.
So as long as you try and show others that their road is perhaps not a good one to take, you sink (with them) in the mud.

Solely work on perfection, on YOU, and work on your Light, and when you meet these people, and without you even saying a word, they will understand that you are in and have the Light, that you are Good and Honest and Truthful, and it is then that they will seek to imitate your actions and your Being.

(translated from french to the best of my abilities! ~ LMajno)





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