​Respecting your elders was the one thing that many of us ‘older’ folk remember being told over and over again.
We weren’t allowed to talk back to our parents, we had to sit still and listen to our grandparents, and we always spoke politely to grown-ups we encountered in the street.
Then times changed. Children were told about their rights, and justifiably so, as we learned to our horror that some of those adults abused their positions of trust. As well, children were encouraged to share their feelings and question rules and query those in authority.
Respecting your elders quickly became old fashioned and, some might say trite, but the question remains, was it such a bad idea?

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