R-E-S-P-E-C-T

I’ll tell you what it means to me.

Regardless of your dislike for a person, it is totally inappropriate to call them out their name, heckle them during a speech or impose your views of that person on someone else. It bewilders me how someone would heckle the president during his speech. The highest authority in our country and you don’t even have enough respect to listen. If you disagree that much, then why are you there in the first place? You are free to disagree and even hate behind closed doors but have enough respect for yourself to act as an adult!

I had a 13 year old child say to me that “I made her sick” because I asked her to remove her coat from an empty chair so that I could sit down. When I mentioned it to her mother she simply stated, “I know, she is always so disrespectful”. HELLO! What do you plan to do about that MOM? I can offer some suggestions but they will actually make her sick, for real this time. The lack of respect from our youth is beyond belief. However, it starts and ends at home. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and neighbors, please stand up and put these children in their place.

Here’s wishing you ……a little respect (sock it to me, sock it to me,
sock it to me, sock it to me)!

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Hobo's Question of the Day

Whatever happened to the true belief in “It takes a village to raise a child”?
Have we as a society become so self involved and isolated from our neighbors that we are allowing an entire generation to walk the path of no return?
I ask this question because not to long ago when I was a child, there were certain “rules” that my friends and I never questioned or went against.
On many occasions, I have noticed children just standing at street corners (long after the street lights were on) on a school night, with no adult supervision, and what seems to be no apparent destination.
I have witnessed a couple of my friend’s children ignore their parents when their name is called or say “what do you want” when they do respond. One of my friend’s children actually ran away because his parents did not allow him to “hang out” with his friends, because he had failed most of his classes in school.
Yet the thing that is causing me the greatest concern is the amount of children who are committing crimes and killing one another. It seems as if there is an entire generation of children who just do not care.
So my question: As someone who does not have any children, what is my part (if any) in reinforcing more positive attitudes for children to witness and/or model after? What can we as a society do to insure that children are no longer witness to so much negativity, believe that it is acceptable to disrespect their neighbor, and start believing in a more positive and productive future.

Looking for answers,

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