Respect; Rules and Beliefs

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Respect Rules and Beliefs No matter where I am in life, I have rules that need to be followed. Rules are made to be abided by so that whether I am in my home, at school, at work, or anywhere for that matter. When I am able to maintain my composure, others do not fall victim to my own immoralities. People live by many different things, most of them being rules and beliefs, mine is respect. I create rules for myself as a guide as to how I believe I should treat others in all aspects of my life including family, friends, as well as work. As a mother, I have always tried to teach my family that the main rule in life is to demonstrate respect to not only individuals but showing a level of respect in everything you do and everything involved. When my children were small, I first taught them respect for family. This may have consisted of learning to knock on a closed door and not just walking in or if someone left something out taking it to their room and setting it up on something, not just tossing it around because it was not theirs. This was also a learning point in respect for myself, as I demonstrated to them the respect I believed they should have towards each other, and everyone else in our family. As they grew older I was able to teach respect to them not only in the way I spoke to them but in how they spoke to others. If I chose to use words that had a negative impact on my children, I would see a negative impact between them as well as towards their dad and myself. Therefore, I taught my children respect by being respectful of them and their dad and having them display respect to us at an early age. Respect begins at home and with yourself. If I did not have respect for myself, I tend to find it almost impossible to be able to display respect for others. After all, respect is something that I have earned by others by administering it freely and
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