Life Skills & Value Education – CLASS-III – Unit 7. BE RESPECTFUL

What is respect?

Respect means to show care and polite behavior towards someone you consider important and accepting them as they are.

For example, you show respect to your teachers by following their instructions and giving them your full attention.

The way you speak with them or the way you behave should be such that it creates a good and positive impact on them. That is how you show respect.

But why do we need to show respect?

When you receive respect, you feel good and confident. You feel like you have value and are accepted by others for your goodness. You feel like you can achieve anything you want when people respect you.

In the same way, when you show respect to others, they experience the same good feeling you feel. Isn’t it nice if people remember you for your goodness and not for your bad behavior?

Think of it this way: the way you are with others is the way you want them to be with you.

So, if you want respect, you have got to give it, too.

TO RECEIVE RESPECT, YOU MUST RESPECT, TOO!

Once Upon a time, there was a family who had two children. Their daughter was elder to her brother. The daughter’s name was Anu and her brother’s name was Manu. They used to play together, study together, and spend a lot of time together.

Anu was a good girl. She was good at her studies and everything that she did. Manu was also a very caring brother. But Anu had a habit of shouting at her brother whenever she was angry. She would not realize how rude she would get with him. Many a times her parents advised her to be polite with her younger brother, but she was unable to improve her way of talking with him.

One day while they had some guests in their home, Anu mistakenly broke Manu’s favourite toy car.

Manu got very angry at his sister. He could not help but yell at her in front of her guests. Anu felt bad about the way he was shouting at her.

After the guests left, her father called her and asked why she was not having her dinner. She was very angry at Manu since he shouted at her when the guests were at home.

“Anu, surely Manu’s behavior with you was not good. But you must realize that this is how Manu must have felt a lot of times when you were rude to him. You both must learn that to receive respect, you must also give it,” her father said to her. Immediately, both anu and Manu apologized to each other and tried their best to always respect each other.

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