Thanks to Lynn Friedman and the February Challenge to jumpstart our blogging. I read the Active Rain Community Guidelines. After reading them over and mulling about them what really stood out to me was the word RESPECT. We seem to be lacking that as an overall society.
A perfect example was a friend of mine told her son who was 4 at the time to call me Yolanda not Mrs. Crew or Miss Yolanda. I was stunned. I did not like it. It was the 1st time I had had this situation. I thought why did it bother me? It then came to me, it was the lack of respect. This is a little thing but that is how respecting our elders start. Though I was 30 at the time it did not matter. I was his elder.
When this situation occurred again I did correct the name. It is not something I did not pratice with my own children. When Bob came into our lives, my children have a great dad, so they could not call him dad and they were to young to call him Bob so they called him Mr.Bob, now they call him Mr. B for short.
If we here at Active Rain can respect each other and respect our audience and the public, then we start by teaching others respect; by doing this we are teaching others respect because it all starts with our examples.
I sometimes think our world would not be in such as state if we all simply respected each other, but respect is a 2 way street.
Respect is something we should all practice and hopefully it will be reciprocated.
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