6 Ways To Teach Your Children To Respect Grandparents

I was very impressed by this saying that I read in a popular Parenting magazine, “What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.” Most grandparents’ life revolves around their grandchildren; so we need to set an example and teach our children to respect their grandparents.

Ways to teach children to respect their grandparents: 

1) Politeness is the most important attribute that we need to teach our children right from a young age; this does not mean that the children have not to talk their mind or quash an argument. We need to teach our children not to be rude or back answer; mind you if the children get away once with back answering grandparents, they will make a habit of it, so curb it the very first time.

 

2) It is generally found that grandchildren tend to respect grandparents that are having their own life, career, social life and fulfilling hobbies; we need to teach our children that even though their grandparents are old and weak today, they have worked hard all their lives and have brought up their parents, who love them and care for them.   

3) Grandparents can also make sure their grandchildren give them respect by checking them when they are rude to him/her; this conveys the important message to grandchildren that grandparents can also stand for themselves. However it would be futile to tell grandchildren that all adults are right and should be respected; your adult child would then look for opportunities to be short with grandparents.

4) The lesson of giving respect to grandparents can be best taught to grandchildren by example; make it a point to never correct your parents or lose temper or raise your voice with them in front of your children. Children would take the liberty of doing the same thing with their grandparents; set the important example for your children to be polite to their grandparents.

5) The essence of good breeding is that our children need to be civil and show respect not only to their grandparents, but to all elders. Avoid discussing the bad points or any argument that you had with  any elderly relative in front of children; they will only grow up into more critical and negative human beings.

6) Lastly create a feeling in your children that it is their privilege to spend time with their grandparents and not a favor; they could learn a lot of life’s lessons by spending quality time with them. So they should behave in a very civil and polite way to benefit from this wonderful grandchild-grandparents relationship. 

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