The elderly French woman’s teaching her own grandkids about respect, by showing them the respect they deserved, setting that needed example for her younger generations to follow, translated…
Mrs. Honey lives about a hundred meters away from me, every couple of days, I’d gone to her house for coffee, to chit chat.
There’s a huge lawn for the kids to run and play in in the houses in the countryside, Honey’s eight grandkids would come back to her house from the various cities they live in to visit for the holidays. This gives their parents the time to be alone, and it’d given the kids their cousins to play with, thirdly, the cakes grandma made is, so very, delicious—Mrs. Honey’s husband, before he’d passed, was the best cake master in town, as the best cake master’s wife, she surely, had her own set of skills in baking.
One day, I’d found that she’d referred to her older grandkids as “vous”, there are two forms of second person in French, “tu”, to refer to someone in one’s own generations, and “vous”, mostly used with elders, the boss, the strangers, and friends you aren’t that close to yet.
And so I’d asked her curiously, “Why did you use this sort of a tone of respect toward your own grandchildren?” Honey said, “as they were young, I’d, loved them a lot, so they feel loved, but when they turned fifteen, I’d needed them to know, that there’s respected needed to be shown in the love I gave them, that there’s, the give-and-take measures between one person to another. If they’d treated each other like we had when they were little, then they may well forget that level of needed respect, and would become, disrespectful. And, if they start up their own families, they will carry that lack of respect toward their separate spouses, and their young too.”
I’d looked at this nearly eighty-years-old, elderly French woman who’d never left Brittany her whole life, shocked of her beliefs, of how she’d, carried out what the Confucius had preached about respect?
Surely, s the kids are older, they’d needed to understand, to learn that there’s, this respect between the members of the families. Respecting that everybody is an independent entity, that nobody belonged to anybody else. With this sort of a mindset, there would be, less of the tragedies that’s happened in the families around the world right now.
The elderly woman educated her young grandkids by setting an example, by RESPECTING her grandchildren very much, and by showing the kids that respect, the kids will surely, model the behaviors of adults, because that, is how children learn, by modeling, and this elderly woman IS a perfect example of how parents should raise their own young!
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