Building on from last week’s column, I want to remind parents and adults that the way that you speak to your children or in front of your children, is the way that they will start to speak to you and others.
As a parent and adult you are the benchmark of what is the appropriate ways of dealing with emotions (positive and negative) and conflict.
Now, I know it’s not always easy to get it right, but we need to be more self-aware of how we talk to (and about) our partner, the cashier at the supermarket, our employees and co-workers, our neighbours, the President, people from different cultural and language groups, other drivers, our family members, their friends and team mates, because this will become the way our children talk to and about these people (and you).
We can’t complain young people have no manners and respect, when we have taught them to speak and act like this, through our own behaviour.
