I have seen a lot of post on here about children being 'respectful' or 'disrespectful'. What people seem to mean to say is respectful (or not) of their parents (sometimes elders or people in general but the main focus seems to be on parents). I will preface this by saying that in the past I have been very disrespectful to my mother. I was raised to believe that politeness was general (and therefore was something you have to everyone unless they were very rude to you when it was excusable although not preferable to drop it) while respect had to be earned. My mother lost any respect I had for her when I was quite young and never earned it back. My question is this. When a child doesn't show enough 'respect' for a parent who does this reflect poorly on? The child for not living up to expectations or perhaps failing to recognise the good that their parent does? Or the parent for either failing to teach their child to recognise good actions or for not deserving their child's respect?
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