How can we expect differently from our children?

Children from a very early learning age are taught how to be respectful, how to speak, when to speak, what to say, who to say it to, and where to say it. In fact, being respectful is taught in just about every corner of the world. For many years, teachers have struggled with maintaining diplomatic order in their classrooms because some children just couldn’t or didn’t grasp this concept. We all know how frustrating it is when someone just blabs out things in the middle of class, or when a person is just being a complete donkey for show. It majorly disturbs the energy in the classroom and creates an atmosphere for confusion. In school, children are taught to raise their hands before speaking, to listen when other’s are talking, and most importantly, to be respectful of other people’s thoughts and opinions even if they don’t agree. This communication skill is taught to children at an early age because when children become adults and face these situations, they need to know how to appropriately react.



Everyday, children are reprimanded for not following this simple basic rule of communication. Parents are called and some children even lose recess or extra-curricular privileges for this. Being respectful is a basic human trait. It takes more effort to be disrespectful because it requires more thought and energy. The purpose of reprimanding children for being disrespectful is to teach the children how to deal with adversity and to show the children how to appropriately agree to disagree. This level of communication, no matter how elementary and basic it may seem, is obviously difficult for some adults to master. When you become and adult, childish ways and acts should be written in your history book. This is not to say that as adults we won’t have to deal with “childish” situations, but we must not be child minded in our responses to such dealings. When we fail to teach our children how to act and react, we set them up to look and be ignorant and arrogant.

Barrack Obama, the President of the United States, is the leader of this nation and at no time should it be deemed appropriate to blatantly disrespect him. Sure he says and does things that we may not agree with, but realistically, who agrees with everything someone else says or does? Just like we teach children to respect the teacher, principals, and other adults in the schools, the President should be honored with this same respect, as his job is the most critical. It is an utter disgrace to America to have our president disrespected on national television by congressman, Joe Wilson, because “Little Joey” got “too emotional”. If we expect our children to display a level of respect for others, why aren’t adults held to the same standards. We can’t teach our children one thing, do another, and still expect them to act appropriately. Children learn by example. “Little Joey” needs to be heavily reprimanded for his inappropriate remarks and his disrespectfulness, not only towards our president, but to all Americans. How can we expect our children to behave appropriately in school or anywhere else for that manner, but adults are not held to the same standards? “Little Joey” is the ultimate disgrace to the state of South Carolina and the United States of America. He has proven that no matter how far you move up the ladder, a lack of class will always surface. I really hope the congressman loses his position in congress because of his careless judgment and lack of integrity. We can’t teach our children that this behavior is acceptable! Joe Wilson must be removed!