The Raising Boys and Girls podcast is back for Season 4 with topics and guests that will inspire you along your journey of raising kids in today’s world. Join Sissy Goff and David Thomas this week as they share four important steps to teaching kids about respect.

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Teaching Kids About Respect

Teach Respect.

All kids need to be taught what respect is and what it looks like. 

Respect can be an abstract concept for kids who think in black and white. We need to break it down for them to help them understand.

When kids blow it, acknowledge that they need practice. Say something like, “Try again.”

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Earn Respect.

Parents need to be intentional about earning and maintaining their child’s respect.

There is usually one child you are harder on. It’s typically the oldest child of your same gender or the one who is most like you.

 

Be fair.

Be trustworthy.

Be reliable.

 

Choose your battles with your kids. 

Be conservative with your history. If you share the poor choices you made with your kids, they will use that information as a license, not for learning.

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Model respect. 

Kids learn more from observation than information.

Your kids are watching all of your exchanges with other people.

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Require respect.

Every home needs a bottom-line level of respect that is required.

Certain words should have automatic consequences.

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It’s important to value your kids’ character over their happiness.

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Help kids remember there are always two sides to every story.

It’s important that you respect yourself. How you talk about yourself to your kids influences their level of respect for you and for themselves.

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3 Intentional Practices to Teach Kids About Respect:

1. Make sure you and your spouse are parenting on the same page.
2. Practice what it looks like to disagree with respect.
3. Apologize.

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