How do you teach your children how to respect their aunts and ask forgiveness if there is need?
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 4:04 AM
It is unfortunate but it is a reality, anywhere in the world, respect for the older ones particularly their aunts, is fast fading. Even in the Philippines which is famous for its Filipino Values, respect for the elderly as one of the most basic values, is on its down trend. This prods us to ask how do you teach your children how to respect their aunts and ask forgiveness if there is need?
Teacher'steacher considers this a fundamental problem and needs fundamental response. For one, teaching should not be seen as something that is just told to the children there and then. Teaching starts at home and is followed up in schools and in the bigger community. It goes back to the values practiced by parents and their children as they live as a family. The need to follow this up when the children go astray is constant for once the children make friends or go to school the children's need for guidance and clarification might be in order.
Sometimes when the younger people talk as though they do not have respect for the elderly, the reaction of the elders borders on desperation. Some just leave this on Karma and let life make the disrespectful ones learn the hard way. Since the elderly wants the younger ones to ask forgiveness and it is not forthcoming, the elderly can again only look up to the heavens for vindication.
No wonder we always say we are not yet in heaven and however good this earth may be, it will always fall short of what awaits us in Heaven with God. There, there is no need for respect and to ask forgiveness for there is no need. May we all see each other there fellow teachers.
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