What happened to  the "good manners and right conduct" that our parents and elders taught us when we were younger?
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They disappeared with the introduction of the anti religion activists
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Not always, respecting elders is an old tradition that won't last very long. Compare it to the tradition of women being not equal to men. They wanted better rights and they got them. Maybe young people will eventually get their rights too.
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1.Because they weren't taught to respect their elders.  \n\n2. Because they aren't being treated with respect.\n\n3. Peer Pressure.\n\n4. Unresolved emotional issues.\n\nWithout knowing his age, it is hard to answer this question in the best way, but I will try to help as much as I can.\n\n1.Did his parents raise him to show respect? Maybe you could set a good example by showing how you treat people respectfully. Be careful when you  are upset or angry, to not say anything disrespectful in front of your grandson. Children learn what they hear and see.\n\n2.Do you treat him with respect? Children deserve respect too,and if they aren't getting respect in return, they may stop showing respect. Maybe by slightly exaggerating your respect for him, it will give him the incentive to return the respect.\n\n\n3.Peer Pressure is harder to deal with. Do the kids he hangs out with act disrespectful? If so maybe grounding him for disrespectful behavior would help him to learn to be his own person and not just follow the crowd. Explain to him why you are grounding him and how disappointed you are that he would treat you or anyone worthy of his respect with disrespect.\n\n4. Unresolved emotional issues can cause children to act disrespectfully. The only way to resolve the issues would be to get him professional counseling.\n\nMaybe if you sit down and talk with your grandson and discuss the problem with him, making sure to treat him with respect, he might just come around and start giving you respect. Let him know that this is a big problem for you and that you really want to solve the issue and would like his input. Be sure to ask him why he treats you disrespectfully and truly listen to his response.  You may be doing something, without knowing it, that is causing him to react this way to you. Maybe giving him the right to respectfully tell you that he doesn't like something you have said or done, would curb his disrespectfulness. Make him understand that treating you with disrespect will not be tolerated and that there will be consequences, so you would like to work with him to find a solution to the problem. \n\nOpen communication is always the best. \n\nYou do want to be careful about teaching children that they have to respect ALL elders or ALL people. They should be taught to "Treat" people respectfully, but actual respect has to be earned. \n\nI raised my daughter to give respect where respect was due. Not all elders deserve respect, so I think that just teaching them that they have to respect all people is wrong. She was taught to treat everyone with respect, until they did something to lose that respect. I certainly didn't want her to think she had to respect criminals, perverts etc.  Good Luck! =-)
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Some people don't have any respect for other's piece of mind, period. A well-behaved child is such a rarity these days. Polite society is becoming extinct.
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to me i think tolerance is like manners .it shouldn`t need to be taught .If you grow up in an enviroment where every one is good mannered you will behave in the same way and it will stay with you for life  as something you do as naturally as breathing .and  it`s the same way with open mindedness and tolerance and even knowing right from wrong As much as we don`t like the idea when we are young most people at some point realise that they have turned into one or the other of their parents.
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sometime in the 88 - tru the 90's.\nI think if you respect people they won't have a problem with things quite so much.
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My Mother who no matter of the hardships that life brought was always a lady and beautiful.(also in her soul).  Why i now love flowers on my table, Chanel No5 even if I can't afford to drench myself in it but then just a dab will do to smell heavenly and  wearing it I can face any of life's unpleasantries.  Manners also  keeps us  being civilized and reflect how we treat out fellowmen-can't have manners and then treat someone badly. God also has manners-for treats us with dignity and respect and is always kind.
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there are still alot of orders that use the old habits...possible thought is that gave it to them...but in reality...probably threw them out...
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Very very tolerant and kind. I have heard this story before but I can't remember where. I believe it was back in school. Not all people need their "good deeds" to be rewarded. Some are kind, just for the sake of being kind.\n\nBut there was something else to this. A deeper lesson or meaning. I'm sorry to say that I can't remember what it was.
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I went to school in an era when corporal punishment was the norm, in private school and public school, and I went to both private & public, What was it like? well of course no one wanted to get paddled by a teacher but, to be honest it was not a bad thing, there was a saying "It takes a tribe to raise a child" which means no one did it alone "back in da day" there was a thing called "respect your elders" which mean you didn't talk back to adults, you did not cruse in their present, you said things like "Yes ma'am, No ma'am" Now-a-days the elders are more afaird of the young which means there's No Respect. does this help any?
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Not too many people are into etiquette these days, in part because no one took the time to teach them and/or spark their interest in it.  Modern day etiquette courses will definitely have to address the idea of wanting to learn basic manners, for starters- otherwise nothing will be accomplished.  After that is tackled, the most practical thing to teach would be the golden rule- treat others as you would like to be treated.
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These days a lot of parents are so young that they are still trying to be kids themselves doing stuff like going out all the time and partying. They don't spend quality time with their children teaching them things that parents used to teach their kids like respect and other characteristics that a lot of kids these days don't have. Also kids learn from example so if they see mom and dad cussing out the grocery clerk or waiter or some other innocent person who accidentally did something wrong they think that's how to act.
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People have become depersonalized in a modern world.There is a lack of accountability. We no longer live in small communities that we have to have good relations to survive. If 150 years ago you were rude to the people you interact with, you may not get your harvest sold at a decent price, or the neighbors to help till you fields should you fall sick. These days many are estranged from family.Extended family has always served as a system  of support as well as discipline. Aunts,Uncles and grandparents would step in as surrogate parents should they see even a distant relation misbehaving.People are also weary, I think , and in the hurried pace of life, do not see what being kind will DO for them.Unfortunately, thinking of yourself first has been promoted for years now and rudeness is a side effect.IMO, If everyone calmly and non judgementally said ," You may not realize it, but you were just unnecessarily rude" people may reflect and change their own behavior. Then again, you may get the finger!
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I remember those days and God Bless them. Back then there was no fear of seriel killer or child molester because whether we new it or not the neighborhood watched out for us. When I was a child my parents busted my butt when I did wrong and I am a better person for it. God help this generation where the state and local governments have stepped in a taken the right to discipline away from parents, yet they act baffled when one of those young people do things that those of my generation would have never considered. Life was good back then, I wish we could have those days back.
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No one says "excuse me", "thank you" or "I'm sorry" anymore. Especially children. It is almost as if parents feel that common courtesy is too old fashioned.
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I Corinthians 13:11  ("When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am (grown), I have no more use for childish ways.")\n\nCertainly, as we grow, those things we once thought important fade away and are replaced with new values. The Red Ryder BB rifle I wanted for X-mass as a child is set aside as a laptop takes its place.
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They died out sadly, there are few of us left and its a lot of parents faults for not raising their children with morals, though some parents did, a lot of the children chose to not have any. It is a question of morals and now a days people say morals are whatever you want it to be or your right im right no one is wrong, people just don't realize no morals is bad. \n\nAt least there are a few of us with morals left.