by Jamie Pancake

Created on: August 24, 2009   Last Updated: August 25, 2009

Getting your child to participate in ways they show respect for their parents everyday, not just on respect for parent's day, can also get them thinking about ways to show respect for other adults in their lives.

Activities that can be engaged in can be a number of hands on experiences in which your children can demonstrate their understanding of respect and how they can show respect for others. From helping others by carrying groceries or volunteering at the local homeless shelter serving food or cleaning up after meals can serve other purposes besides respect.

If you choose to have your child volunteer at the local homeless shelter, they can learn to appreciate the things that they have because they will see hands on that not everyone has a loving family or a warm bed to sleep in every night. At the same time, they can learn that everyone deserves to be respected, even though they do not have a home of their own or a job. These can be great life lessons that your child can learn on a day that is named for respecting parents, it can go farther than that.

Depending on their age, children can also show respect by doing chores that they normally need to be reminded to do on their own without the reminder. You can wake up to a clean home or having them prepare a nice meal for you or themselves. They can take out the garbage and get their homework done way before you would be asking them to do it. Things like these will be something that you can appreciate because you will not need to spend your day telling them to do all of these things, you can sit down and relax for a nice welcome change.

If your children are a little on the younger side, they can make some crafty things for you and other adults in their lives that they should show respect for. They can make grandma a stick that can be used for grabbing objects when they fall on the floor that they can grab and pick up. They can also make a picture frame that can used to display family photos. This will give the person that receives it a personal gift that a lot of thought was put into making.

No matter how it is done, the purpose of respect for parents' day is a day to open up the dialogue for the meaning of respect and every day ways to show respect for the adults in your lives. There are many ways to show respect, even if they are not a parent, they deserve respect and this is the perfect time to show it.

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