Wheres the respect in kids today???

[Bonebuster]

Respect is taught at the same time potty training is going on.

Rare is the person who can turn back the clock, and LEARN respect.

[Swamp Pygmy]

Well all I can really say is look around at many of the people your own age. Just walk in any hunting shop and talk to people. Would you respect them? I just think too many older folks expect to be respected just because they didn't die before forty or they had kids. It's really not that big of an accomplishment.

If you want respect do something to earn it is what I always say. I won't lie. I get hit with the "you have no respect" argument alot. And it's usually because they disrespected me first and were astonished I had the audacity to say something back. They seem quite dumbfounded that you would do something besides stand there and let them talk down to you.

It's amazing the losers who have lives that amounted to nothing and clearly made about every wrong mistake you can make in life will stand there and lecture you about subjects they know nothing about. If you're not at that age you just don't know. I hear stuff like: "You know what you should do? Join the military." Just out of nowhere. Bad ideas from idiots. I hear them all the time. Everyone thinks they know something.


Not saying these kids weren't disrespectful, or that you did anything wrong. Just to the question of "why do kids today have no respect?" I'd just have to retort "How many adults today actually deserve it?"

Not to mention every time someone brings up how mature they are as a personal quality I give it about an hour before they do something incredibly childish. It gets known as "stubborn" or "set in his ways" once you reach a certain age and nobody is allowed to say anything about it; but I'm not necessarily convinced growing up actually exists.

I meet at least as many hairy, old, and bald children as I do adults, and its got less to do with age than personality more times than not.

[LATradHunter]

Im only 18 but where im from we were taught manners, to be gentlemanly, and respect people.  I hate it when my peers act like they dont have good sense, but like they say, "common sense isnt all that common."  Like OkKeith said, young people involved in clubs and organizations are usually respectful and become honest, decent citizens.  I was in FFA and it taught me a lot about life and how to act. Working on a dairy also made me have the utmost respect for workin folks, because im in the daily grind too.  just my thoughts....

[Soilarch]

Pygmy,

I'll agree that there ARE some people who have many years under their belts..who haven't "earned" my respect in any sense of the word.  But I've not earned theirs either. So it a "common courtesy" to assume and give the respect until you know otherwise.

Something that really changed my view on things just a few months ago:

A guy in his late 30s was telling a story about how he was in a car with a bunch of High Schoolers.  They started giving the old man in front of them a hard time for driving slow.  Saying this and that about how he shouldn't even be aloud to drive if he's scared to drive over 50mph.   The guy in his mid thirties said that that man might very well have driven a tank into the heart of Nazi Germany...he can drive his Lincoln on "your" road however he well pleases.

That one hurt, been guilty of it myself a few times.

Point is where taught to *assume* a man has done something to be respected for by the time he's older-ish.  I know there are exceptions...but I think they're a lot fewer-in-between than we think sometimes.

[jacobsladder]

well said Soilarch.... I don't know any of you that well...but I can guarantee that if you walk up to my 13 year old son you will be respected.... respected whether you deserve it or not..... I could care less if you deserve respect or not...what is important is that my boy acts tastefully and  appropriate..

   

   

 

[vermonster13]

It's always the bad ones we remember or that stick-out causing us to overlook or not notice how many good ones there really are.

Take a kid hunting and earn respect for a lifetime.

[buckeye_hunter]

I understand your point of view. Many kids are a pain in the butt, but there are still some good ones.  Check out the post about the 9 point buck that a kid named Dylan shot this last weekend. It is on the top of the pow wow posts. His daddy has raised a good kid and highly respectful. I have met this kid and he is one of the good ones. He also has some good luck to boot!

-Charlie

[jacobsladder]

Very true Vermonster!  Take a kid hunting with traditional gear.... You not only earn respect, but teach the child how to hunt respectfully!

 

[Kingwouldbe]

That's why lions eat there young  

[Ian johnson]

I'm 17 and I'm respectful towards others, all these post on here about people talking down to trad archers had me hesitant about the responses I would get at the local compound shop when I asked for a string, everyone in there complimented me on my beautiful bow and I found out later when I went back tht one of the guys in there started shooting recurves, I will agree that some kids these days dont show a lot of respect, but not all of us are like that

[deadpool]

honestly, before I got into tradgang, I was kind of disrespectful brat, no joke, would talk back to my parents every now and then and didn't even care, did worse stuff too, after seeing all the kind acts everyone here did for each other, showing respect to one another and passing down knowledge taught me that I should be more respectful towards adults and the rest of society.

[jacobsladder]

Deadpool! good for you bud..  

[reddogge]

I think I would have somehow coaxed them by using their immature overblown egos to your advantage to shoot your bow and equipment.  I'm sure you would be looked at with new respect.

I got my friend and his son (both very polite men) who are dedicated high tech wheel bow shooters to shoot my recurves one evening.  They actually enjoyed it but not to the point they switched parties.  But they were impressed how well they shot.

[blind one]

I came home from hunting tonight and had a message. It was one of the kids from the shop.He got my number from another person there. He apologized for the way he and his friends acted. He asked if we could shoot together sometime. I'm meeting him there tomorrow to do some shooting. I have nothing but respect for him. It took alot of courage for him to do what he did. This is going to be fun to help him anyway I can...Roy

[John3]

bline one thats great news about the kid calling you...

As I have gotten older I've learned to "lead by example"..  Shoot with that kid and I bet before long some of the others will want to shoot as well.. By the end at least one of those kids will pick up a trad bow...

[jacobsladder]

[nightowl1]

Things that would send me behind the woodshed...

Not saying ma'am or sir, entering a building before a lady, not wearing a shirt to the dinner table, wearing a hat at the dinner table, using harsh langauge in the presence of a lady... it was a long list haha

I'm 25 and I think Maw-maw could still give me a run for my money if I didn't act like a Southern Gent.
Manners and respect are taught not learned.

Its a little dissapointing not seeing guys open car doors for the honeys anymore. I guess when you just push a button to unlock it takes the romance out of it or something.

Glad the kid called, made a new friend.

[nightowl1]

i ment "their honeys" not "the honeys" oh crap here comes maw maw

[Tracy Bellamy]

I'll never forget, I was walking in to a store a while back and held the door for an older gentleman, As i walked away he stopped me and asked why i done that, I said what, He stated hold that door for me, I told him no reason really i guess i try to hold the door for everybody, Never really thought about it, He patted me on the back and said  God bless you, He said that is a rare occasson for that to happen, I'm 35 and that tells you something about life and times now, So much has changed since i was a child, Imagine 30 years from now..

[Soilarch]

Originally posted by nightowl1:
Things that would send me behind the woodshed...

I'm 25 and I think Maw-maw could still give me a run for my money if I didn't act like a Southern Gent.  

Reminds me of a funny story my pastor back home tells.  He's in his early 50s.  When he was dating his now wife in H.S. he had a "sociology" assignment.  He figured he'd do it at her families house when they all went there for lunch after church.  Never found out exactly what he said or did, but her 5'2" mom had him ran out the house with a broomstick before he could ever explain things.   :D  

Maybe we should do away with these new plastic-handled "swiffers" and go back to good ole 1" oak broomsticks