Teach Morals, Values and Respect

TEACHING MORALS, VALUES AND RESPECT

Teaching Values, Morals and Respect

Goldy Garcia

Excelsior College

Student

Introduction

Values, morals and mutual respect are the defining properties of any given civilization. This is because human interaction is based on mutual understanding, respect and respect for the rights of others. Such sensitive features are instilled upon a growing generation from the earliest of ages to ensure that they have within them the capacity to live and interact with others as society has come to expect. Children are able to grasp the concepts and carrying them throughout life when taught at an early age. Teaching morals, values and respect is a sensitive and complex process. It can be achieved through a marriage of factors such as participation of many parties; parents, friends and adult models, as well as environments such as school and social situations.

It a known fact that children learn by emulating what is around them. Li (2006) points out that 95 percent of what children learn is from what they observe around them and only 5 percent is from direct instruction. This implies that children will often do what we do more than what we say. Children subconsciously record everything they hear said in front or around them. The language they hear in their environment as they grow up is that which they will speak. It is due to this impressionable quality of children that parents, guardians and teachers have to be careful about how they approach teaching of respect. Respect is primarily a feeling of admiration that is rooted or elicited by the person’s qualities or abilities. See, what happens is that when a human being is under duress; their ability to learn temporarily shuts down giving way to a recording experience. So, when an adult attempts to teach a child using ridicule, hitting, shaming, or even lecturing, the child’s ability to learn shuts down. All the child can do is record the event being modeled. Adults often...