Note From Tanis Nicole Wright

Welcome To Your Better Parents, Better Kids Newsletter Issue #8!!!

I'm Tanis Nicole Wright, Director/Head Coach of the Better Parents, Better Kids Parenting Program (http://www.betterparentsbetterkids.com ) and co-writer of our Parenting E-book Better Parents, Better Kids (http://www.betterparentsbetterkids.com/info )

Today we will be continuing with Part Eight of our "10 Instant Ways To Become a Better Parent" series. Today's topic is about teaching your children to respect others.

10 Instant Ways To Become a Better Parent - Part Eight

Teach Your Child to Respect Others: Respecting others, both young and old, strangers or love ones, helps to remind us that the person we are being respectful of is a person with feelings, worth and dignity.

If you are able to teach your child the importance of being nice and respect others in combination with understanding that we are all unique, it may single handedly nip the phenomena of bullying in the butt. Who or for what purpose would there be left for anyone to want to bully someone?

Assignment

Respect means different things to different people and you would be surprised to find out that even your child's definition of respect may be different than your own.

In any case, a rule of thumb would be to explain to your child to always keep in mind to treat others the way how they would like to be treated.

So even if how your child likes to be treated is different than the person they are interacting with, for example your child thinks of respect as being conversational with another person, whereas the other person sees respect as meaning to be left alone and only starting a conversation when they initiate, it is still better than not attempting to respect others which leads to depersonalization.

Once depersonalization happens it opens up to bullying and intentionally disrespecting and disregarding others.

So your assignment is to explain to your child about respect and treating others the way how your child would like to be treated and even if the other person doesn't like how they are being treated, it is not because they don't appreciate it, it is just because they are different and unique, which again helps to prevent judgment and depersonalization on your child's part towards the other person they are being respectful towards.

One Last Note From Tanis

Do you have a parenting question that you would like answered?

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and I will be happy to answer your questions as part of our "Ask Tanis" Q & A section here in our Newsletter.

Best Wishes To You and Your Family,

Tanis Nicole Wright

Director/Head Coach

The Better Parents, Better Kids Program

http://www.betterparentsbetterkids.com

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