What can we as parents do to make our children respect us more?

Set a good example for them and BE LOVING to them. Set limits, and never say No when you don't mean it. Discipline with "time-outs", not rage and yelling. Read "Love and Logic", a popular book for parents. Apologize to them when you know you've made a mistake, but don't feel guilty forever and don't let them manipulate you.

Also, don't be too hard on yourself. This society doesn't encourage kids to respect their parents; quite the opposite. When I was a kid, your parents, your teachers, your relatives, your neighbors, and everybody you knew expected you to respect your parents and all adults. The whole community raised you. It's not like that today, but it really needs to be. So don't blame yourselves completely if the little darlings mouth off too often.

The kids don't need to respect me. They need to obey me. Kind of hard to maintain with a public school system that tells them to do what they want.

As they get older and understand the world more the respect will develop. In fact they'll be amazed at how much you know and how well you've done.

They have to see respect in there lives. How do the parents treat and respect each other. Does the parents give the child respect that they deserve, within the bounds of control and discipline. We have to make sure they see respect to know what it is.

Respect is not automatic; it is earned. You earn respect by being a good parent even when the child does not like you for it. You earn respect by proper discipline so that the child will not be one more in a generation of disillusioned disrespectful spoiled brats.

Kids gets about as much respect as adults.

I don't respect my parents because they don't respect me. Simple.

Of course there are alot of real spoiled brats out there that simply will not learn their lesson unless something bad happens to them. Hey, you can't say you didn't try to warn them.

show them how to care. let them learn how to give and not always take. at Christmas and/or on their birthday, let them pick one gift they received to give to charity. from early they realize what it means to share. they realize that life is not all about them. also, we want our children to be respectful, and, well they should. but, we as parents have to be respectful to our children, listen to what they are trying to say, and rather than saying they are wrong, let them try to tell us from young why they think they are right - and listen, listen, listen to what they say. if they are wrong in what they are saying, we can try to explain why they are wrong. sometimes, we are so busy do the talking on how to behave we don't see the light in what they are trying to tell us. it's hard to get everything right, but, we sure can try to make it better. good luck - they still are joy to the world.

I'm a physician, and I've seen that asking the kids to do things we don't or wouldn't do decreases their respect for us. If you ask them to do their chores you do yours. You have to treat them as persons but making them see you're the parent and you should be respected. When you do things right they usually admire you.

My kids respect me. It's because I earn it. I dont' respect my parents and I was well behaved. I behaved because I was scared of them. So a well behaved child doens't necessarily have respect.

To earn a child's repsect you have to respect them an individual. Listen to them, talk to them, explain things to them. Don't talk down 'oh when you are older you will understand'. Respect them

Respect them.

it doesn't mean they dont have respect to you as a parents, they just need more attention and more tender loving care.

bang!!!